Greg Roberts, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk & Director, Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts

Current Research Projects and Grants

*Principal Investigator, Special Education Strand, Center on Instruction: Five-year cooperative agreement sponsored by USDoE as part of the NCLB-funded Comprehensive Centers Program.

*Principal Investigator, Dissemination Core, Texas Center on Learning Disabilities: Five year project funded by NICHD-NIH. * Denotes MCPER projects

Boards, Committees and Associations

National Planning Committee, National Summit for Response to Intervention

Board of Directors, Vaughn Gross Center

Board of Directors, Capital School of Austin

Member, American Educational Research Association, American Evaluation Association, American Psychological Association, Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness

Representative Publications

Refereed Articles:
Roberts, G. & Mohammed, S. (manuscript submitted for publication). Early reading achievement trajectories: ELL and L1 population estimates using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey.

Wanzek, J., Roberts, G., & Linan-Thompson, S. (in press). Differences in measures of high stakes reading achievement and the effects on oral reading fluency progress monitoring. Journal of School Psychology.

Roberts, G., Torgeson, J.K., Boardman, A. & Scammacca, N. (2008). Evidence-based strategies for reading instruction of older students with LD or at-risk for LD. Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 44, 439-454.

Harn, B., Linan-Thompson, Roberts, G. (2007). Intensifying instruction: Does additional instructional time make a difference for the most at-risk first graders? Journal of Learning Disabilities, 41, 115-125.

Vaughn, S., & Roberts, G. (2007). Secondary intervention in reading: Providing additional instruction for students at risk. Teaching Exceptional Children, 39, 40-46.

Roberts, G., Good, R., & Corcoran, S. (2006). Story retell: A fluency-based indicator of reading comprehension. School Psychology Quarterly, 32, 286-300.

Becker, H., Roberts, G., Morrison, J., & Silver, J. (2004). Recruiting People With Disabilities as Research Participants: Challenges and Strategies to Address Them Mental Retardation, 42, 471–475.

Roberts, G. (2001). Evaluating costs and benefits of programs for children with serious health care needs. Evaluation and the Health Professions, 24, 72-83.

Becker, H. & Roberts, G. (2000). The Inclusion Inventory: A tool for measuring inclusiveness in school settings. Special Services in the Schools, 16, 57-72.

Roberts, G. (2000). Health Psychology. Social Science & Medicine, 50, 751-754.

Roberts, G. (1999). Age effects and health appraisal: A meta-analysis. Journals of Gerontology, 54, 24-30.

Roberts, G., & Stuifbergen, A. (1998). Health appraisal models in MS. Social Science & Medicine, 47, 243-253.

Roberts, G., Becker, H., & Seay, P. (1997). Development of a framework for measuring innovation in the supports paradigm. Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps.

Stuifbergen, A., & Roberts, G. (1997). Health promotion practices of women with multiple sclerosis. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 78, 3-9.

Book Chapters:
Vaughn, S., Thompson, S., Woodruff, A., Murray, C., Wanzek, J., Scammacca, N., Roberts, G., & Elbaum, B. (2008). Effects of professional development on improving at-risk students’ performance in reading. In C. Greenwood, T. Kratochwill, & M. Clements (Eds.), School-wide Prevention Models, New York, NY: The Guilford Press.

Roberts, G. (2007). Response to Intervention. In Hot Topics in K-12 Education. Washington, D.C.: Thompson, Publishing.

Roberts, G. & Nowakowski, J. (2004). Addressing the summer learning loss: An evaluation of the Voyager Summer Program. In G. Borman & M. Boulay (Eds.), Summer Learning: Closing the Achievement Gap. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Stuifbergen, A., Seraphine, A., & Roberts, G. (2000). Maximizing health in the context of chronic illness. In S. Funk, E. Tornquist, J. Leeman, M. Miles, & J. Harnell (Eds.), Key Aspects of Preventing and Managing Chronic Illness (pp.195-206). New York: Springer.