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Daphne Greenberg, Ph.D.

Professor    Professor    
Education

Ph.D., City University of New York, 1995
M.A., Yeshiva University, 1985
B.A., Brandeis University, 1984

Specializations

Adult and child literacy
Diversity
Adult learning

Biography
Publications

Greenberg, D., Wise, J., Frijters, J., Morris, R., Fredrick, L., Hall, S. (invited submission for special issue, in press). Persisters and nonpersisters: Identifying who stays and who leaves from adult literacy interventions.

TaylorN., Greenberg, D., Laures-Gore, J., & Wise, J. (in press). Exploring the syntactic skills of struggling adult readers. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal doi: 0.1007/s11145-011-9324-9

Pae, H., Greenberg, D., & Williams, R. (in press). An analysis of differential response patterns on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-III in adult struggling readers and third-grade children.

Pae, H., Greenberg, D., & Morris, R. (2011). Construct validity and measurement invariance of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test performance of struggling adult readers. Language Assessment Quarterly, 8, 1-20. doi: 10.1080/15434303.2011.613504. PubMed #613504

Greenberg, D., Wise, J., Morris, R., Fredrick, L., Rodrigo, V., Nanda, A., Pae, H. (2011). A randomized-control study of instructional approaches for struggling adult readers. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 4, 101-117. doi: 10.1080/19345747.2011.555288. PubMed #22180789

Calhoon, M. B., Greenberg, D., & Hunter, C. (2010). A comparison of standardized spelling assessments: Do they measure similar orthographic qualities? Learning Disabilities Quarterly, 33, 159-170.

Calhoon, M. B., Al Otaiba, S., & Greenberg, D. (2010). Spelling knowledge: Implications for instruction and intervention. Learning Disabilities Quarterly, 33, 145-147.

Greenberg, D., Levy, S., Rasher, S., Kim, Y., Carter, S., & Berbaum, M. (2010). Testing Adult Basic Education Students for Reading Ability and Progress: How Many Tests to Administer?Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 4, 96-103.

AlexanderM., Commander, N., Greenberg, D. (2010). Using the four questions technique to enhance critical thinking in online discussions. Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 6, 409-415.

MacArthur, C. A., Greenberg, D., Mellard, D., & Sabatini, J. (2010). Models of reading component skills in low literate adults. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 43, 99-100. doi: 10.1177/0022219409359340. PubMed# 20179304.

Nanda, A., Greenberg, D., Morris R. (2010). Modeling Child-Based Theoretical Constructs with Struggling Adult Readers. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 43, 139-153. doi: 10.1177/0022219409359344. PubMed # 20179308.

BurkeV., & Greenberg, D. (2010). Determining readability: How to select and apply easy-to-use readability formulas to assess the difficulty of adult literacy materials. Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 4, 34-42.

Greenberg, D., Pae, H., Morris, R., Calhoon, M.B., Nanda, A. (2009). Measuring Adult Literacy Students’ Reading Skills Using the Gray Oral Reading Test. Annals of Dyslexia59. 133-149 doi: 10.1007/s11881-009-0027-8. PubMed # 19629705.

Greenberg, D. (2008). The Challenges Facing Adult Literacy Programs. Community Literacy Journal, 3, 39-54.

Greenberg, D., Burke, V., & Gazmararian, J. (2008) Marriage Amendment Ballots of 2004: Could State Residents Read Them? Social Work in Public Health, 23, 1-11.