Projects

Program Evaluation Projects:

• Team: Alysha Meloche, Amanda Reinsburrow, Alia A. Ammar, & Toni Sondergeld
• OBGYN Program Evaluation
• Law School Program Evaluation
• LeBow BRIDGE Program Evaluation

Adolescent Comprehension Evaluation (ACE):

• ACE Team: Lori Severino, MJ Teece DeCarlo, Toni Sondergeld, Meltem Izzetoglu, & Alia A. Ammar
• Patent Pending
• The focus of this project is comprehension due to its importance as a twenty-first century skill as well as its necessity as an essential life skill. The ACE is an iPad tool that can be used by teachers to evaluate the reading comprehension level of their students. It will consist of thirty passages, both literature-based and informational, per grade level. Each passage will be followed by ten question, which assess various aspects of comprehension, from literal understanding and inferential skills to vocabulary, comparison and contrast, and text structure and features.
• ACE Events:
  • National Science Foundation I-Corps:
    • NSF Sites:
      • Role: Entrepreneurial Lead
      • Location: University of Delaware, Horn Center for Entrepreneurs
      • Session 1: June 11, 2018
      • Session 2: June 15, 2018
      • Session 3: June 25, 2018
      • Session 4: July 9, 2018
  • NSF Teams:
    • Winter Cohort (January 22-March 8, 2019)
    • Role: Entrepreneurial Lead
    • Initial Video (Introductory Week)
    • Final Video (Final Week)

Summer Literacy Program:

• 2017 Team: Lori Severino, MJ Teece DeCarlo, & Alia A. Ammar
• 2018 Team: Vera Lee, MJ Tecce DeCarlo, & Alia A. Ammar
• The focus of this study is community summer reading camp for children ages 7-10 was to determine if student reading scores could be affected in a short four-week program. Participants attended a four-week, three hours per day camp that focused on individual tutoring and small group sessions for reading and writing. Participants were given pretests and posttests using the Wilson Assessment for Decoding and Encoding (WADE) and two items from the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test (WRMT-III).
• Throughout the duration of the camp, students received one-on-one Wilson Reading System (WRS) intervention daily. They also received one hour of group intervention with a reading specialist for writing strategies and another hour for reading strategies. This intervention focused on enhancing the students' ability to decode and encode in order to improve their overall language and language comprehension skills. WRS targets students starting the 2^nd grade and adults who have language-based learning disabilities.
• Role: Site Director (and responsible for student testing for Year 1 of the camp)
• Camp Dates:
  • 2017: July 17-August 11
  • 2018: July 30-August 10
    • Picture 1 from the Drexel Therapy Dog Visit
    • Picture 2 from the Drexel Therapy Dog Visit