Assistant Professor, Psychology

Office: Valade 309 - stodaro@adrian.edu

Degrees

Northern Illinois University,, Ph.D.

Specialties

cognitive psychology

Biography

Courses Frequently Taught: General Psychology, Statistics for Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Senior Research

Selected Publications:

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., Magliano, J.P., Millis, K.K., McNamara, D.S., & Kurby, C.A. (2008). Assessing the structure of verbal protocols. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 607-612). Washington, DC: Cognitive Science Society.

Millis, K., Magliano, J., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Todaro, S., & McNamara, D.S. (2007). Assessing and improving comprehension with latent semantic analysis. In T. Landauer, D., D.S. McNamara, S. Simmons, & W. Kintsch (Eds.), LSA: A road to meaning (pp. 207-225). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

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.

Selected Presentations:

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

Todaro, S.A. (2010, August). Predicting inference 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., 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, J.P., & Holt, J.K. (2008, October). Assessing graduate student teaching assistants’ ability to construct well-functioning items. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Educational Research Association, Columbus, OH.

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

Student Mentored Projects

von Arx, K. (2012, May). Understanding variables associated with rape acceptability. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association Psi Chi Poster Session, Chicago, IL.

Kamody, R. (August, 2011). Task Difficulty and Evaluation Affects Stress Levels. Poster presented at the 2011 APA National Convention Psi Chi Poster Session, Washington D.C.

Johnson, K. (2011, May). Automatic gender stereotyping and gender attitudes. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association Psi Chi Poster Session, Chicago, IL.

Friess, E. (2011, May). Effects of question type, question repetition, and feedback style on the accuracy of responses given after witnessing a mock crime. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association Psi Chi Poster Session, Chicago, IL.

Davis, B. (2011, May). Stereotype threat and the role of self-esteem. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association Psi Chi Poster Session, Chicago, IL.

Professional Memberships: American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, Midwestern Psychological Association, Society for Text and Discourse

Conferences: Midwestern Psychological Association, Society for Text and Discourse

Research Interests: Reading Comprehension, Individual Differences, Effective Reading Interventions, Verbal Protocol Methods, Quantitative Statistics