Panayiota Kendeou, Guy Bond Chair in Reading Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology’s psychological foundations of education program, is part of a team of researchers who were recently awarded a four-year, $1.4 million grant, funded through the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The project, “iSTART-Early: Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking for Young Developing Readers,” aims to develop and test an intelligent tutoring system that provides automated reading comprehension support to students in grade 3 and 4. The team is led by Dr. Danielle McNamara, professor at Arizona State University and includes Kendeou and Carol Connor at University of California-Irvine as co-principal investigators.

For more information on Kendeou’s research, visit her Reading + Learning Lab site.