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Dr. Brown is the Chair of English and Speech
Communication at Riverside City College. The
department includes the disciplines of English, ESL,
reading, speech communication and journalism. Dr.
Brown also teaches part-time in the Graduate School
of Education at the California State University,
Fullerton. Dr. Brown was one of the pioneers in
developing basic skills courses for on-line
delivery. His Critical Reading course at RCC was
among the first remedial courses in reading to be
developed and delivered completely on-line. He has
developed the Testing and Evaluation of Reading
course at CSUF for on-line delivery as well.
Dr. Brown co-authored
the popular MyReadingLab available from
Pearson Prentice Hall. The computer program
utilizes lexiles to assess the reading ability of
the student as well as the reading difficulty of the
text. Using the same measure for both has lead to
greater accuracy in matching the student’s
readability with the level of difficulty of the
print. In addition, Dr. Brown authored the 4th
edition Prentice Hall Textbook Reader. The
reader includes an extensive introduction explaining
the metacognitive approach to reading, ten
comprehension strategies designed for expository
print, instructions on how to implement each
strategy, and practice textbook chapters taken from
Prentice Hall’s best selling textbooks.
Dr, Brown received is
Ed. D. in 1996 from Pepperdine University
where for his dissertation study he developed an
evaluation model to assess the effectiveness reading
instruction to adults using the television as the
primary delivery mode. The project was sponsored by
the United Nations Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) called Distance Education
Initiative for the Nine High Population Countries
(DE9).
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