Timothy Charles Brown
Professional Biography
 

 
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    Associate Professor, Reading,
    Riverside City College
       ▪Accreditation Liaison Officer
       ▪Academic Senator
       ▪Faculty Co-chair, Academic
        Planning Council
       ▪Faculty Co-chair, Strategic
        Planning Committee
 
    Part-time Graduate Faculty,
    California State University Fullerton
    College of Education
    Reading Department
 
    Principal
    Tim Brown and Associates
 
 
    The Prentice Hall Textbook Reader
    2nd Ed.
 
    Oxford Round Table
       ▪Literacy: Educational Strategies
        Initiatives
       ▪PowerPoint Presentation
 
    MyReadingLab,
    Prentice Hall Publishers
 
    The Prentice Hall Textbook Reader
    Prentice Hall Publishers
 
    Doctoral Dissertation: "Descriptive
    Analysis of Evaluation Models for
    Distance Education Courses Which
    Utilize the Television as the Delivery
    Mode: Implications for Evaluating
    Broadcasts in Literacy Skills for
    Adults in Marginalized Groups in the
    DE9"
       ▪ Abstract
       ▪ Preliminary Defense
       ▪ Final Defense
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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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. There are 43 full-time faculty members and over 100 part-time faculty. Dr. Brown has been a member of the Reading Discipline since 1984. He has taught all levels of reading skills classes offered at the college and has developed a companion reading class designed to be taken in conjunction with a content area lecture class where students learn reading skills using their assigned textbooks.

Dr. Brown also teaches part-time in the Graduate School of Education at the California State University, Fullerton. He teaches Teaching Reading and Thinking in the Content Areas and Testing and Evaluation of Reading Performance to graduate students working on Masters Degrees in Reading and certification for teaching reading at
the community college level. Dr. Brown has been teaching at CSUF since 2000.

 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). He was granted one of his two Masters Degrees in Reading by CSUF in 1991. Dr. Brown’s first Masters degree was granted by Pa American Universityin Physical Education in 1977. His bachelor’s degree was granted from Arizona State University in 1975 with a major in physical education ad a minor reading.

 

 

 
 

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