Gregory Roberts
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4013986 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gregory Roberts |
| PRENOMES | Gregory |
| SOBRENOME | Roberts |
| ASSINATURA | ROBERTS G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3063-0559 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Investigating the additive effects of opportunities to spell words on word reading for students with significant reading difficulties
Integrating spelling with word reading instruction is commonly recommended. However, few studies have determined the unique effect of spelling activities on word reading skills for students with reading difficulties. Considering the limited time available for intervention and the fact that several words can be read in the time it takes to spell one, additional research is needed to optimize intervention time. We randomly assigned 68 students with…
A community-based reading intervention for K-2 at-risk readers
The Impact of Instructional Guidance on Science Learning in Second-Grade Classrooms
The appropriate level of instructional guidance for students to acquire a deep understanding of the disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science and engineering practices outlined in the Next Generation Science Standards remains ambiguous. To shed light on this important topic, we tested two distinct science programs in a cluster randomized controlled trial involving 11 second-grade classrooms and 185 students. Holding constant con…
The Role of Instructional Design in the Delivery of Early Science Instruction
A critical tenet of education research is establishing what works. Another is exploring theorized mechanisms of change to help ascertain why academic programs work, for whom, and under which conditions. In other words, unpacking the black boxes of academic programs. This study explored the quality of teachers’ facilitation of (a) scientific investigations and (b) science discourse during and after the implementation of a systematic, explicit seco…
Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228-1326
Medieval states are widely assumed to have lacked police forces. Yet in the Italian city-republics, soldiers patrolled the streets daily in search of lawbreakers. Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228-1326 is the first book to examine the emergence of urban policing in medieval Italy and its impact on city life. Focusing on Bologna in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, Gregory Roberts shows how police forces gave teeth to the com…
An Extensive Reading Intervention for Emergent Bilingual Students With Significant Reading Difficulties in Middle School
This U.S. study evaluated the effects of a reading intervention for emergent bilingual students with significant reading difficulties in Grades 6 and 7 within a multisite randomized controlled trial. Emergent bilinguals were randomized to a researcher-provided intervention ( n = 171) or business-as-usual comparison condition ( n = 169). Results on a measure of word reading indicated significant differences favoring treatment after Year 1; however…
Creating and Maintaining Safe College Campuses
The Importance of Baseline Word Reading Skills in Examining Student Response to a Multicomponent Reading Intervention
To address the needs of a diverse group of students with reading difficulties, a majority of researchers over the last decade have designed and implemented multicomponent reading interventions (MCRIs) that provide instruction in multiple areas of reading yielding mixed results. The current study evaluates whether students’ baseline word reading skills predict their response to a MCRI. Data from a randomized controlled trial for third- and fourth-…
Understanding the nature and severity of reading difficulties among students with language and reading comprehension difficulties
When Treatment Adherence Matters
In this study, we examined the extent to which teachers’ treatment adherence, instructional quality, and the interaction of these variables influenced eighth‐grade students’ content knowledge and reading comprehension. We examined treatment fidelity for students ( n = 775) in classes randomly assigned to receive an evidence‐based content area reading program called Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text. Results indicate that teachers’ inst…
Efficacy of a Second-Grade Science Program
This study, which was reviewed through the Registered Report process, examined the initial efficacy of the Scientific Explorers program (Sci2) on second-grade students’ science achievement. Sci2 is grounded in the growing body of empirical research on science instruction, embedding principles of explicit instruction within a guided inquiry-based design framework. Eighteen second-grade classrooms were randomly assigned to treatment or control cond…
Preliminary validation of the dropout risk inventory for middle and high school students
Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228-1326
This is a preprint version of my book published by Amsterdam University Press in 2019
Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228–1326
Medieval states are widely assumed to have lacked police forces. Yet in the Italian city-republics, soldiers patrolled the streets daily in search of lawbreakers. Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228–1326 is the first book to examine the emergence of urban policing in medieval Italy and its impact on city life. Focusing on Bologna in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, Gregory Roberts shows how police forces gave teeth to the com…
Toward a Bioecological Model of School Engagement
School disengagement is associated with poor academic achievement, dropout, and risk behaviors such as truancy, delinquency, and substance use. Despite empirical research identifying risk correlates of school disengagement across the ecology, it is unclear from which domain these correlates arise. To redress this issue, the current study used intraclass correlation and DeFries-Fulker analyses to longitudinally decompose variance in three domains …
Effects of a Response‐Based, Tiered Framework for Intervening With Struggling Readers in Middle School
This study addressed the effects of multiyear, response‐based, tiered intervention for struggling readers in grades 6–8. A sample of 768 sixth‐grade students with reading difficulties was randomized to a response‐based, tiered‐intervention condition or “business as usual,” and initial treatment status was maintained over the three‐year study. To estimate the effect of treatment and to address questions about the acceleration of learning, a multip…
High school dropouts
Research suggests that contextual, self‐system, and school engagement variables influence dropping out from school. However, it is not clear how different types of contextual and self‐system variables interact to affect students’ engagement or contribute to decisions to dropout from high school. The self‐system model of motivational development represents a promising theory for understanding this complex phenomenon. The self‐system model acknowle…
The Effect of School Dropout on Verbal Ability in Adulthood
Health Psychology
Health appraisal models in multiple sclerosis
Toward a Bioecological Model of School Engagement
School disengagement is associated with poor academic achievement, dropout, and risk behaviors such as truancy, delinquency, and substance use. Despite empirical research identifying risk correlates of school disengagement across the ecology, it is unclear from which domain these correlates arise. To redress this issue, the current study used intraclass correlation and DeFries-Fulker analyses to longitudinally decompose variance in three domains …
When Treatment Adherence Matters
In this study, we examined the extent to which teachers’ treatment adherence, instructional quality, and the interaction of these variables influenced eighth‐grade students’ content knowledge and reading comprehension. We examined treatment fidelity for students ( n = 775) in classes randomly assigned to receive an evidence‐based content area reading program called Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text. Results indicate that teachers’ inst…
Effects of a Response‐Based, Tiered Framework for Intervening With Struggling Readers in Middle School
This study addressed the effects of multiyear, response‐based, tiered intervention for struggling readers in grades 6–8. A sample of 768 sixth‐grade students with reading difficulties was randomized to a response‐based, tiered‐intervention condition or “business as usual,” and initial treatment status was maintained over the three‐year study. To estimate the effect of treatment and to address questions about the acceleration of learning, a multip…
Health appraisal models in multiple sclerosis
Health appraisal models in multiple sclerosis
Health Psychology
The Effect of School Dropout on Verbal Ability in Adulthood
High school dropouts
Research suggests that contextual, self‐system, and school engagement variables influence dropping out from school. However, it is not clear how different types of contextual and self‐system variables interact to affect students’ engagement or contribute to decisions to dropout from high school. The self‐system model of motivational development represents a promising theory for understanding this complex phenomenon. The self‐system model acknowle…
Effects of a Response‐Based, Tiered Framework for Intervening With Struggling Readers in Middle School
This study addressed the effects of multiyear, response‐based, tiered intervention for struggling readers in grades 6–8. A sample of 768 sixth‐grade students with reading difficulties was randomized to a response‐based, tiered‐intervention condition or “business as usual,” and initial treatment status was maintained over the three‐year study. To estimate the effect of treatment and to address questions about the acceleration of learning, a multip…
Toward a Bioecological Model of School Engagement
School disengagement is associated with poor academic achievement, dropout, and risk behaviors such as truancy, delinquency, and substance use. Despite empirical research identifying risk correlates of school disengagement across the ecology, it is unclear from which domain these correlates arise. To redress this issue, the current study used intraclass correlation and DeFries-Fulker analyses to longitudinally decompose variance in three domains …
Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228-1326
This is a preprint version of my book published by Amsterdam University Press in 2019
Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228–1326
Medieval states are widely assumed to have lacked police forces. Yet in the Italian city-republics, soldiers patrolled the streets daily in search of lawbreakers. Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228–1326 is the first book to examine the emergence of urban policing in medieval Italy and its impact on city life. Focusing on Bologna in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, Gregory Roberts shows how police forces gave teeth to the com…
Preliminary validation of the dropout risk inventory for middle and high school students
Efficacy of a Second-Grade Science Program
This study, which was reviewed through the Registered Report process, examined the initial efficacy of the Scientific Explorers program (Sci2) on second-grade students’ science achievement. Sci2 is grounded in the growing body of empirical research on science instruction, embedding principles of explicit instruction within a guided inquiry-based design framework. Eighteen second-grade classrooms were randomly assigned to treatment or control cond…
The Importance of Baseline Word Reading Skills in Examining Student Response to a Multicomponent Reading Intervention
To address the needs of a diverse group of students with reading difficulties, a majority of researchers over the last decade have designed and implemented multicomponent reading interventions (MCRIs) that provide instruction in multiple areas of reading yielding mixed results. The current study evaluates whether students’ baseline word reading skills predict their response to a MCRI. Data from a randomized controlled trial for third- and fourth-…
Understanding the nature and severity of reading difficulties among students with language and reading comprehension difficulties
When Treatment Adherence Matters
In this study, we examined the extent to which teachers’ treatment adherence, instructional quality, and the interaction of these variables influenced eighth‐grade students’ content knowledge and reading comprehension. We examined treatment fidelity for students ( n = 775) in classes randomly assigned to receive an evidence‐based content area reading program called Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text. Results indicate that teachers’ inst…
Creating and Maintaining Safe College Campuses
An Extensive Reading Intervention for Emergent Bilingual Students With Significant Reading Difficulties in Middle School
This U.S. study evaluated the effects of a reading intervention for emergent bilingual students with significant reading difficulties in Grades 6 and 7 within a multisite randomized controlled trial. Emergent bilinguals were randomized to a researcher-provided intervention ( n = 171) or business-as-usual comparison condition ( n = 169). Results on a measure of word reading indicated significant differences favoring treatment after Year 1; however…
The Role of Instructional Design in the Delivery of Early Science Instruction
A critical tenet of education research is establishing what works. Another is exploring theorized mechanisms of change to help ascertain why academic programs work, for whom, and under which conditions. In other words, unpacking the black boxes of academic programs. This study explored the quality of teachers’ facilitation of (a) scientific investigations and (b) science discourse during and after the implementation of a systematic, explicit seco…
Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228-1326
Medieval states are widely assumed to have lacked police forces. Yet in the Italian city-republics, soldiers patrolled the streets daily in search of lawbreakers. Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228-1326 is the first book to examine the emergence of urban policing in medieval Italy and its impact on city life. Focusing on Bologna in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, Gregory Roberts shows how police forces gave teeth to the com…
Investigating the additive effects of opportunities to spell words on word reading for students with significant reading difficulties
Integrating spelling with word reading instruction is commonly recommended. However, few studies have determined the unique effect of spelling activities on word reading skills for students with reading difficulties. Considering the limited time available for intervention and the fact that several words can be read in the time it takes to spell one, additional research is needed to optimize intervention time. We randomly assigned 68 students with…
A community-based reading intervention for K-2 at-risk readers
The Impact of Instructional Guidance on Science Learning in Second-Grade Classrooms
The appropriate level of instructional guidance for students to acquire a deep understanding of the disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science and engineering practices outlined in the Next Generation Science Standards remains ambiguous. To shed light on this important topic, we tested two distinct science programs in a cluster randomized controlled trial involving 11 second-grade classrooms and 185 students. Holding constant con…
Psychology (13 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Reading and Literacy Development (7 obras) · Developmental psychology (6 obras) · Early Childhood Education and Development (6 obras) · Mathematics education (6 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Parental Involvement in Education (4 obras) · Reading comprehension (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras)