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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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