Position: Associate Professor

PhD Granting Institution: University of Mass., Amherst, MA (1996)

Psy 500 - Design and Analysis

Psy 370 - Educational Psychology
Psy 331 - Tests and Measurements

I am interested in the cognitive processes in the development of reading ,and math skills. I am also interested in looking at learning disabilities, pre-reading skills (e.g. phonological awareness) and college student learning.

Current/Recent Research Projects:

Recent: Textbook comprehension in college students

Current: Assessment of phonological awareness in preschool children

*Cisero, C. A. (in press). Does reflective journal writing improve course performance? College Teaching.

Cisero, C. A., Royer, J. M., Marchant, H. G., & Jackson, S. J. (1997). Can the Computer-based Academic Assessment System (CAAS) be used to diagnose reading disability in college students? Journal of Educational Psychology, 89, 599-620.

Cisero, C. A., & Royer, J. M. (1995). The development and cross-language transfer of phonological awareness. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 20, 275-303.

Royer, J. M., Cisero, C. A., & Carlo, M. S. (1993). Techniques and procedures for assessing cognitive skills. Review of Educational Research, 63, 201-243.

Royer, J. M., Carlo, M. S., & Cisero, C. A. (1992). School-based uses for the Sentence Verification Technique for measuring listening and reading comprehension. Psychological Test Bulletin, 5, 5-19.

*Please note that the name Cisero, rather than Durwin, is used for publications and presentations.