Karin Keith

Karin Keith is an Associate Professor and Department Chair for Curriculum & Instruction in the Clemmer College. Dr. Keith also coordinates the M.Ed. in Reading. Dr. Keith holds a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Education from the University of South Carolina. While in South Carolina she served as a research assistant on a qualitative and quantitative OERI funded study that sought to understand the effectiveness of the state-wide reading initiative. This initiative included a study of 50,000 K-5 students in classrooms of over 2,000 participating teachers led by 100 literacy coaches in 50 school districts. Dr. Keith was previously a literacy coach and reading teacher for struggling readers. Her research interests include disciplinary literacy, literacy coaching, and reading comprehension.