Associate Professor, Psychology

Office: Valade 309 - stodaro@adrian.edu

Degrees

Northern Illinois University,, Ph.D.

Specialties

quantitative methodology
discourse processing
cognitive psychology

Biography

Courses Frequently Taught:

Statistics for Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Advanced Research
Capstone: Senior Research

Selected Publications:

Todaro, S.A., Durik, A.M, Magliano, J.P., & Holt, J.K. (2013, April). Assessing the impact of topic interest on comprehension processes. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL.

Todaro, S.A. (2010, August). Predicting interference processes during reading: A multilevel analysis of text-based and reader-based factors. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, IL.

Todaro, S.A., Millis, K.K., & Dandotkar, S. (2010). The impact of semantic and causal relatedness and reading skill on standards of coherence. Discourse Processes, 47, 421-446.

Todaro, S.A., Perry, P.J., & Holt, J.K. (2009). Assessing graduate-level teaching assistants’ ability to construct well-functioning items for the purposes of classroom-based assessment. Thresholds in Education, XXXV, 29-34.

Todaro, S.A., Wilken, A.M., & Perry, P.J. (2009, October). Assessing the effectiveness of Knowledge Box® on second graders' oral reading fluency. Presented at the Annual meeting of the Midwestern Educational Research Association, St. Louis, MO.

Todaro, S.A., Perry, P.J., Magliano, J.P., & Millis, K.K. (2008, July). What contributes to strategic processing? The role of ready attributes. Presented at the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Society for Text and Discourse, Memphis, TN.

Millis, K.K., Magliano, J., & Todaro, S. (2006). Measuring discourse-level processes with verbal protocols and latent semantic analysis. Scientific Studies of Reading, 10, 225-240.