Suzanne Adlof

Vocabulary knowledge is an important component of academic success and impacts skills across academic disciplines. It is a critical component of literacy development. However, the vocabulary skills of high school students in the U.S. are insufficient to meet the demands of college and career. Furthermore, there is very little vocabulary instruction taught in U.S. high schools. The current project will develop a high school vocabulary intervention that builds on the fully developed Dictionary...

The program trained three postdoctoral fellows for research careers in educational science with a special emphasis in reading research.