Margaret "Peggy" Dubeck
Assistant Professor
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30 - 4:30; Wednesdays 11:00 - 1:00; Thursdays 12:30 - 1:30; by appointment
Phone: +1 843-953-7603 Skype: pegdubeck
E-mail: dubeckmm@cofc.edu
Personal Website: http://web.me.com/dubeck
Education
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA & Kenya, East Africa
Ph.D. Reading Education, University of Virginia, Dissertation: Kindergarten emergent literacy skills assessed in Spanish predicting later reading outcomes assessed at the end of first grade in English
M.Ed. Master of Education, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
B.A. Communications Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MIResearch Interests
- The Health and Literacy Intervention (HALI) Project in Coastal Kenya [link]
- Assessment
- International Education
- Literacy
- Multilingualism
- Reading Development
Courses Taught
EDEE 377: Reading / Learning Strategies
EDEE 610: Integrating Assessment and Instruction
EDEE 678: Success in Literacy for Older Readers
MTLA 605: Literacy Development of Early Learners
Publications
Dubeck, M. M., Okello, G., & Jukes, M. C. H. (February 2012). Early primary literacy instruction in Kenya. Comparative Educational Review.
Brooker, S., Okello, G., Njagi, K., Dubeck M. M., Halliday, K. E., Inyega, H., & Jukes, M. C. H. (2010). Improving educational achievement and anaemia of school children: Design of a cluster randomised trial of school-based malaria prevention and enhanced literacy instruction in Kenya. Trials, 11:93. http://www.trialsjournal.com/content/11/1/93
