David Scanlon
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
updated 4/8/04
External and Internal Funded Research
7/02-7/03 Co-Principal Investigator. Youth
with learning disabilities in inner-city high school: Barriers and resources in the pathway of
school and career achievement.
Maureen Kenny, Co-Principal Investigator
(Boston College Lynch School of Education Argyelan Family Education
Research Fund) ($12,000)
1/02-current Co-investigator. Survey
of secondary teachers’ knowledge of learning disabilities and student potential
in inclusive contexts. Dr. Chriss
Walther-Thomas and Mr. Richard Cass[1],
Co-investigators (Partially supported by
Boston College Lynch School of Education Argyelan Family Education Research
Fund) ($2145)
10/99-6/2000 Principal Investigator. Model
and strategy validation for teachers’ collaborative instruction of content-area
literacy strategies. (Boston College
Lynch School of Education Argyelan Family Education Research Fund) ($1500)
7/98 - 6/99 Principal Investigator. Collaborative
development of procedures for teaching strategies across the curriculum to
academically diverse learners.
(Boston College, Research Incentive Grant) ($5000)
1/94 - 8/97 Co-investigator. Development and validation of a GED
proficiency attainment model for students with learning disabilities and severe
emotional disabilities. Daryl F.
Mellard, Principal Investigator (U.S.D.O.E., Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services, H023P30008)
($812,128)
10/93 – 9/99 Best Practices Research Strand Leader. National
Adult Literacy and Learning Disabilities Center. Academy for Educational Development &
University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities (National Institute for Literacy, X257B30002) ($1,500,000)
9/91 - 8/94 Project Coordinator.
Validation of an integrated model
of strategic and content instruction for secondary mainstream classes. Donald D. Deshler and Jean B. Schumaker,
Principal Investigators (U.S.D.O.E., Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services, HO23C10020) ($472,236)
10/89 - 3/91 Student Investigator.
The Collaborative Learning Project Dr. Candace S. Bos, Co-investigator
(U.S.D.O.E., Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Student Initiated Research,
HO23B90055) ($9,920)
1986 - 1989 Graduate Research Assistant. The
Interactive Teaching Project.
Candace S. Bos and Patricia L. Anders, Principal Investigators (U.S.D.O.E., Office of Special Education
Programs, G008630125)
Unfunded Research
9/94 - 8/95 Project Director. The
impact of teaching teams' collaborative reflection on the processes and
outcomes of strategic teaching.
Donald D. Deshler and Jean B. Schumaker, Co-investigators (Research project conducted without request
for funding)
Research Consulting
pending Project Advisor. Project
ACCEL: Accelerating expository literacy.
C. S. Englert, & C. M. Okolo, Principal Investigators, Michigan
State University. (Research proposal to
U.S.D.O.E., Office of Research and Improvement)
pending Project Advisor. Book
Club/LABS: An instructional model for improving reading results. C. M. Okolo & C. S. Englert, Project
Directors, Michigan State University.
(Model demonstration project proposal to U.S.D.O.E., Office of Research
and Improvement)
11/01-current National Advisory Board member. Institute
for Academic Access: A research institute to improve results for adolescents
with disabilities. D. Deshler &
J. Schumaker, Principal Investigators, University of Kansas. (U.S.D.O.E., Office of Research and
Improvement)
7/99-current Research Partner. National
Center for Access to the General Education Curriculum. Center for Applied Special Technology in
collaboration with Boston College, Council for Exceptional Children, Harvard
University. (U.S.D.O.E., Office of
Special Education and Rehabilitative Services)
1999 Co-Evaluator. Project
NewBC Tech. A. Peck, Principal
Investigator. L. Ludlow, Boston College,
Co-Evaluator
1995-1997 Resource Team member (also proposal co-author). Research
and demonstration of a model for accommodating adults with disabilities in
adult education. D. Mellard,
University of Kansas & W. White, Kansas State University, Principal
Investigators
1995 Consultant. Developing
historical reasoning in students with learning disabilities: Meaningful
integration of technology with instruction.
R. Gersten, Principal Investigator, Eugene Research Institute
1995 Consultant. Conceptual
approaches to teaching history to students with learning disabilities in
integrated settings. R. Gersten
& J. Dimino, Principal Investigators, University of Oregon
1994, July Visiting
Scholar, Eugene Research Institute, Eugene, Oregon.