ALRC RESEARCH
ALRC-Funded Student Grants
These student grants were funded by the ALRC Research Support Grant
For FY ’22:
- Michelle Ogrodnick: Exploring health literacy strategies for telehealth services
- Yu Tian: Written argumentation in undergraduate students: A writing process perspective
For FY ’21:
- Gal Kaldes: Relations between morphological knowledge and reading skills of adult readers: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling study
- Eleanor Yan: Do acculturation strategies support international college students’ literacy skills? Development of the ASICS scale
For FY ’20:
- Danny Feiler: Exploring the Ability of Struggling Adult Readers to Generate Bridging Inferences in Visual Narratives: A Comparison of Eye Tracking Methodologies
- Rurik Tywoniw: Investigating Reading Behavior and Inference-Making in Advanced L2 Reading Comprehension Assessment Tasks
- Katia Vanderbilt: Developing and Testing Alternative Benchmarks of Lexical Sophistication
Affiliated Faculty Research
These are affiliated faculty ongoing research projects.
- Multiple-choice Online Causal Comprehension Assessment for Adults (MOCCA-College): Measuring Individual Differences in Reading Comprehension Ability of Struggling College Readers by Text Type. For more information contact Sarah Carlson
- The Development of the Writing Assessment Tool (WAT): An On-Line Platform for the Automated Assessment of Writing Education Technology. For more information contact Scott Crossley
- Exploratory Implementation Study of Units of Sound. For more information contact Daphne Greenberg
- Assessing the Reliability and Dimensionality of Experimental Morphological Awareness Measures with Struggling Adult Readers. For more information contact Liz Tighe
- Exploring the Construct Validity and the Longitudinal Stability of Morphological Assessment with Struggling Adult Readers. For more information contact Daphne Greenberg
- Developing materials to explore the nature of comprehension challenges in adults with low literacy skills. For more information contact Joe Magliano
- The role of early language and academic English in the reading comprehension of middle and high school deaf and hard of hearing students. For more information contact Jessica Scott
- Exploring the OnPAR Model in a Developmental Educational Context. For more information contact Joe Magliano
- Examining Interactions Between On-Line and Off-Line Explanation Strategies in Science Comprehension. For more information contact Katie McCarthy
- Comprehension Struggles in Science (CSIS): Exploring the Comprehension Processes and Products and Related Components Involved during Science Reading. For more information contact Sarah Carlson
- Multiple-choice Online Causal Comprehension Assessment for Adults (MOCCA-College): Measuring Individual Differences in Reading Comprehension Ability of Struggling College Readers by Text Type. For more information contact Sarah Carlson
- Dawn Aycock, Ph.D., RN Associate Professor in the School of Nursing. Stroke Counseling for Risk Reduction (SCORRE) to improve the accuracy of perceived stroke risk and increase healthy lifestyle behaviors in young adult African Americans. For more information, contact Dawn Aycock
- Building a Health Literate Cancer Center. For more information, contact Iris Feinberg
- Stress and Stress Management for Adult Learners in Literacy Programs. For more information, contact Ken Rice
- Mapping Social Determinants of Health in Clarkston, GA. For more information, contact Iris Feinberg
- Project HATCH – ‘Staying Healthy After Childbirth’ – A cross-national study to support smoking abstinence and inter-related cancer-prevention behaviors among postpartum women. For more information, contact Claire Spears
- Use of Teach-Back by Second Year Nursing Students in Simulation Clinic. For more information, contact Terri Hendry
- Managing Symptoms for Young Children Who Require Medical Technology and Their Caregivers: Using Web-based Modules to Improve Access and Support. For more information, contact Iris Feinberg
- Cultural Adaption and Evaluation of Health Interventions for Smoking Cessation in China and Vietnam. For more information, contact Claire Spears
- Addressing Social Determinants of Health in the Most Diverse Square Mile in America. For more information, contact Mary Helen O’Connor
- Mindfulness-based Smoking Cessation Enhanced with Mobile Technology for Low-Income Smokers. For more information, contact Claire Spears
- Understanding Novel Tobacco Product Use among Low-Income Smokers: A Mixed-Methods Study with Ecological Momentary Assessment. For more information contact Claire Spears
- Incorporating Teach-Back into Simulation Clinic Curriculum for Health Professionals in Training. For more information contact Iris Feinberg
- Exploring Financial Literacy in Low-Skilled Adults. For more information contact Iris Feinberg
- Employee Engagement in Health Insurance Plans. For more information contact Iris Feinberg
- Georgia Partnership for Adult Education and Research (GPAER). For more information contact Daphne Greenberg
- Supply and Demand of Adult Basic Education Services in Georgia. For more information contact Iris Feinberg
- Identifying Risk Factors and Predictors of Literacy for Adults Performing at the Lowest Levels of PIAAC in the United States. For more information contact Liz Tighe
- An examination of the differential item response process of adults from different age groups. For more information contact Hongli Li
- PIAAC Prison Data Analysis. For more information contact Lee Branum-Martin
- Training New PIAAC Researchers. For more information contact Iris Feinberg
- Writing Behaviors Relation to Literacy and Problem Solving in Technology Rich Environments: Results from the 2012 and 2014 US PIAAC Study. For more information contact Iris Feinberg
