Assessment Authors

istation's Internet-based assessment, ISIP, combines modern test theory with current educational standards to provide an adaptive assessment that reaches the ability levels of an entire classroom.

Below are the distinguished educational researchers who authored the items for our comprehensive early reading progress monitoring assessment.

Patricia Mathes, Ph.D.

Dr. Mathes is the Texas Instruments Chair of Reading; Professor of Teaching and Learning; and Director of the Institute for Evidence-Based Education within the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. A former classroom and reading teacher, she received her Ph.D. in 1992 from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in Education and Human Development and has served on the faculties of Pediatrics at the University of Texas – Houston Medical School, the College of Education at Florida State University, and Peabody College for Teachers at Vanderbilt University. Since 1991 she has been conducting large-scale classroom based reading intervention research with funding from multiple sources including the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Science Foundation, as well as state agencies and foundations. She is also the recipient of several prodigious awards including: the 2005 Albert J. Harris award from the International Reading Association, the 2002 Interpretive Scholar award from the American Educational Research Association, the 2001 Distinguished Early Career Researcher award from the Council for Exceptional Children, and the 1999 Samuel A. Kirk award from Council for Exceptional Children Division of Learning Disabilities. She is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and books, and curricular materials related to reading and reading disabilities, differentiation, response-to-intervention, continuous progress monitoring, coaching, and best practices for struggling readers. She serves as the editor for The Annals of Dyslexia and is on the editorial board of several scholarly journals.

Joe Torgesen, Ph.D.

Dr. Torgesen is a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology and Education, Emeritus, at Florida State University. He is also the Director Emeritus of the Florida Center for Reading Research. He has been conducting research with children who have learning problems for over 30 years, and is the author of approximately 190 articles, book chapters, books, and tests related to reading and learning disabilities. His research interests have included reading development, reading disabilities and intervention, and assessment. He is a past member of National Board of Education Sciences, and was given the Orton Award from the International Dyslexia Association in 2006 for his contributions to the science of reading and dyslexia.

Jeannine Herron, Ph.D.

Dr. Herron is a research neuropsychologist who carried out NIH-funded dyslexia research at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) for ten years. As director of California Neuropsychology Services she produced more than 50 conferences in brain/behavior/learning relationships around the U.S. and taught continuing education in technology for teachers at Dominican University. As director of Talking Fingers, Inc. she has been principal investigator on four SBIR grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to develop research-based software and educational toys for early reading.

Example from the ISIP Assessment.