Central Connecticut State University School of Education
	Faculty & Staff

	Barry Davies
	Associate Professor

My primary role as chairman of the department is to provide initial information to students interested in the various programs offered by the Department. I see this role as providing direct assistance to students in the areas of general information, application and registration procedures, and preliminary program design prior to their formal admission to the department and the assignment of a faculty advisor.

My teaching assignments include the two focused research courses, Rdg 598 Seminar in Reading Research and Rdg 698 Research Seminar, the culminating course in the sixth year program. Also, I teach the "Issues" course, Rdg 680 Trends and Issues in Reading and Language Arts, taken early in the 6th year program and a clinical practices course, Rdg 598, in the summer. In addition, I supervise the sixth year, six credit practicum, Rdg 696 Practicum for Reading and Language Arts Consultants. These courses operate within the confines of a personal belief system which recognizes advanced graduate students as self motivating, self directed, responsible, career focused learners. In order to facilitate this belief system, there must be the freedom and the responsibility to carry out course goals, objectives and projects in a manner which is unique to that individual student.

My research interests are in two areas: literacy assessment and college level reading programs. In 1985 I studied a variety of college level developmental reading programs in the Eastern United States. Over 25 sites were visited and evaluated. Basically, programs were one of two distinct types, either learning to read or reading to learn. Learning to read programs focused on developing specific skill areas of reading such as vocabulary, comprehension and rate with a secondary function in the study skills. Reading to learn focused on the study skills with reading skills receiving secondary attention. I have been awarded a sabbatical for the spring of 1998. This leave will be used to study the effect of a new procedure for administering informal reading inventories.

SYLLABI

• Rdg 596
• Rdg 598
• Rdg 680
• Rdg 696
• Rdg 698

VITA

Barry A. Davies, Ed.D.
Associate Professor of Reading & Chair
Department of Reading and Language Arts
Graduate and Undergraduate Faculty
Appointed 1976

Academic Degrees

Ed.D. University of Maine 1970 Education, Reading
M.A. Michigan State University 1964 Reading
B.S. Eastern Michigan University 1959 Education

Professional Experience

1976 - Present Central Connecticut State University; Associate Professor of Reading & Department Chair
1970 - 1976 University of Maine Presque Isle; Associate Professor
and Director of the Developmental Learning Center
1973 - Summer Nova Scotia, Department of Education; Visiting Professor of Reading
1971 - Spring University of New Brunswick; Visiting Professor of Reading
1968 - 1970 University of Maine, Orono; Graduate Assistant
1964 - 1968 Ohio State University; Counseling Specialist, Reading
1964 - 1965 Oak Park, Michigan Public Schools; Reading Specialist
1959 - 1964 Farmington Michigan Public Schools; English/Reading Teacher

Faculty and Administration Load 1997-1998

Fall Semester 1997

RDG 696 Practicum for Reading Consultants
RDG 698 Research Seminar
RDG 850 Department Chair

Spring Semester 1998

Sabbatic Leave: Development of an experimental method of administering diagnostic reading tests

Summer Session 1996

RDG 596 Clinical Practices in Reading
RDG 850 Department Chair

Other Collegiate Assignments

Advising; 120 Graduate Students
Department Liaison; NCATE Self Study
Executive Committee/Past President 1991-93; CCSU AAUP
University Senate; School of Education Chairs Representative
Graduate Admissions Committee; School of Education
NEW; School of Education

Other Related Activities

State Department of Education Self Examination Report: Remedial Reading and Remedial Language Arts - March 1993
State Department of Education Self Examination Report: Reading and Language Arts Consultant
March 1993
State Department of Education Self Examination Interim Report: Remedial Reading and Remedial Language Arts - December 1994.
NCATE Portfolio Review; International Reading Association: Master of Science Degree Program(remedial reading and remedial language arts); Sixth Year Certificate Program (reading and language arts consultant) - August 1996

Current Professional Memberships

Phi Delta Kappa; Executive Committee, Vice President for Membership
International Reading Association; Organization of Teacher Educators in Reading Sub-Group
National Reading Conference
New England Reading Association
Associated Reading Councils of Connecticut; Hartford Council
Connecticut Association for Reading Research

Professional Activities (1989-1996)

Membership Chair, Phi Delta Kappa
Co-editor - CARR Reader

Professional Development and Conferences Attended:

Eighth Annual Collective Bargaining Summer Institute;
Hofstra University; 1993
New England Reading Association Meeting; 1993, 1995, 1997
Connecticut Reading Conference 1991-1995
National Reading Conference; 1994, 1997
International Reading Association; 1993
Connecticut Association of Reading Research, Annual
Member, Think Tank for Connecticut Reading Educators in Colleges and Universities
AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress; 1993
AAUP National Meeting, Washington, DC; 1993
National Meeting, Washington, DC; 1993

Publications

Some Effects of an Experimental Method of Administrating Oral Reading Tests. University of Maine: Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, 1970

"Cost Effectiveness and Student Retention: A New Theme in College Reading"; The CARR Reader; Spring, 1987

Research

An Investigation of College Level Basic Skill Improvement Programs:
Sabbatical Report, 1985

You may contact me by E-mail or by telephone, 860.832.2176.