Michael Faggella-Luby
Professor Texas Christian University
- Fort Worth TX
Michael Faggella-Luby helps educators to implement methods and instructional materials for students with and without disabilities.
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Biography
Dr. Faggella-Luby teaches courses related to preparing educators to evaluate, select, plan, and implement research-based methods and instructional materials for teaching students with and without disabilities who are at risk for failure. His scholarly interests focus on learning disabilities, literacy, reading education, special education, diverse learning needs, instructional design, secondary education, and school reform. He has written publications related to cognitive learning strategies, response-to-intervention (RtI)/scientifically research-based instruction (SRBI), self-determination, literacy, and urban school reform.
Dr. Faggella-Luby’s primary research interest focuses on embedding instruction in learning strategies into subject-area courses to improve reading comprehension for all levels of learners. He received the 2006 Outstanding Researcher Award from the Council for Learning Disabilities and the 2007 Annual Dissertation Award from CEC’s Division of Learning Disabilities for his dissertation study Embedded Learning Strategy Instruction: Story-Structure Pedagogy in Secondary Classes for Diverse Learners.
Before joining the faculty at TCU, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, including positions as research scientist at the Center for Behavioral Education and Research (CBER) and associate research scholar at the Center on Postsecondary Education and Disability (CPED). Dr. Faggella-Luby was a doctoral fellow at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning under the direction of Drs. Donald Deshler and Jean Schumaker. Dr. Faggella-Luby is a former high school administrator and teacher of both English and Chemistry.
To see a full list of Dr. Faggella-Luby’s publications, teaching, service, and other achievements, you may view his TCU Vita.
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
Michael Pressley Award for a Promising Scholar in the Education Field
2012
Annual Dissertation Award, Council for Exceptional Children, Division of Learning Disabilities
2007
Neag School of Education Early Career Scholar Award
2009
Outstanding Researcher Award, Council of Learning Disabilities
2006
Education
University of Kansas
Ph.D.
Special Education
2006
University of Notre Dame
M.Ed.
Secondary Education
2000
College of the Holy Cross
B.A.
English
1998
Links
Media Appearances
Directed Analytics Earns NSF Award For Research And Development
Silicon Bayou News print
2022-11-14
Receiving this award empowers the team to move forward with developing the product. In addition to Mitchell, that team includes Michael Faggella-Luby, core faculty in the Alice Neeley Special Education Research & Service Institute at Texas Christian University, which Directed Analytics partnered with when submitting the NSF proposal and Derrick Wesley, educational program director for Directed Analytics and former transition specialist.
And the Finalists Are … Recognizing TCU’s Best
TCU News online
2022-08-05
The Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Achievement as a Creative Teacher and Scholar recognizes extraordinary creative teaching and scholarship. Nominations are submitted to academic deans who provide recommendations to the chancellor. The winner receives $25,000 and finalists each receive $2,500. This year’s finalists are: Michael Faggella-Luby, Professor of Education and ANSERS Institute Director (College of Education)
Study examines the impact of transition to online learning on students with disabilities
News-Medical.Net online
2021-03-18
"There were lots of universities that responded by saying, 'well, you aren't on campus anymore, so how do we get you changes to your accommodations?'" says study co-author Michael Faggella-Luby, a professor of special education at Texas Christian University, director of the Alice Neeley Special Education Research and Service (ANSERS) Institute, and a former associate professor at the Neag School of Education. "We can't do it the old way, where, you come in and meet with us, we write you a letter, you take the letter to your professor, they sign it. We can't do this anymore, so some universities responded by moving the whole process online. Well, now everybody wins. It's much easier to do those things."
Decade after ‘P.J.’ settlement, special education debate rages in Connecticut
New Haven Register
2013-11-09
Michael Faggella-Luby, who conducted surveys for about five years while chairman of the special education program at University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education, said if a student goes on to post-secondary education, it has a positive impact on future earning power.
Faggella-Luby cautioned that only 20 percent to 24 percent of individuals contacted actually participated in the survey.
“In order to get to post-secondary school, you need to have had a rigorous curriculum,” he said. “When you place kids with non-disabled peers, they have an opportunity to learn the skills, strategies and content to make them successful in college and university classrooms.”
Articles
Are There Predictors of Success for Students With Disabilities Pursuing Postsecondary Education?
Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals2020
Students with disabilities are entering college in increasing numbers. Despite the increase, college persistence and completion remains a troublesome hurdle. Evidence-based practices and predictors have been identified for secondary-level students with disabilities; however, a parallel classification does not exist for postsecondary education.
Students with Disabilities in the Community College Professional Literature: A Systematic Review
Community College Journal of Research and Practice2019
Although college students with disabilities (SWD) represent 19% of all college students and most often access postsecondary education most often via community colleges, there is a paucity of information about topics related to SWD in community colleges in professional journals. Moreover, there is even less information in journals specific to community colleges. This study presents the results of a systematic analysis of the published, data-based research on SWD, and community/two-year colleges from 1951 to 2017.
Literature on postsecondary disability services: A call for research guidelines.
Journal of Diversity in Higher EducationJoseph W Madaus, Nicholas Gelbar, Lyman L Dukes III, Adam R Lalor, Allison Lombardi, Jennifer Kowitt, Michael N Faggella-Luby
2018
Support services for students with disabilities is now a distinct field of practice in higher education, with a significant increase in the number of students receiving services, programs to serve them, and professionals who oversee the programs. The field has professional and program standards, a code of ethics, and a disability service specific professional organization. Correspondingly, an extensive corpus of professional literature has emerged. However, though the research base has great breadth, it lacks significant depth, has poor sample and setting descriptions, and lacks methodological rigor. The result is that there is insufficient evidence spelling out what practices work with which students and in which settings. Guidelines intended to steer future research could have significant impact upon scholars conducting research and, subsequently, higher education. The present article describes the current state of the research base and proposes future directions to guide research.
Higher education and disability: A systematic review of assessment instruments designed for students, faculty, and staff.
Journal of Diversity in Higher EducationAllison Lombardi, Nicholas Gelbar, Lyman L Dukes III, Jennifer Kowitt, Yan Wei, Joseph Madaus, Adam R Lalor, Michael Faggella-Luby
2018
In this study, the literature in disability and higher education was examined, with a specific focus on assessment instruments. Published articles (n = 203) on development of new or refinement of existing instruments were reviewed for traits measured and psychometric rigor reported. Findings showed instruments are intended for professionals and students, and of the student instruments, broad categories are academic, nonacademic, and specific to a disability diagnosis. Not all instruments are limited to students with disabilities; many of the reviewed instruments can be utilized in higher-education settings on all students, faculty, and staff, regardless of disability. The implications of the findings undergird the urgency to prioritize disability as a facet of diversity within higher-education scholarship, and furthermore aid this prioritization by providing a catalogue of robust instruments to researchers and practitioners
Direct training to increase agreement between teachers’ and observers’ treatment integrity ratings
Assessment for Effective InterventionLindsay M Fallon, Lisa MH Sanetti, Sandra M Chafouleas, Michael N Faggella-Luby, Amy M Briesch
2017
To evaluate students’ responsiveness to an intervention, both student outcome and implementer treatment integrity data are needed. Teachers are often asked to self-report treatment integrity data. However, when self-report responses are compared with those from a direct observer, it is apparent that teachers commonly overestimate the extent to which an intervention was implemented as planned. As such, more research related to teacher self-report to assess treatment integrity is needed. The objective of this preliminary single-case multiple-baseline design study was to improve interrater agreement between observers’ and teachers’ self-report ratings of treatment integrity by providing teachers with comprehensive, direct training (including an intervention description, modeling, practice, and feedback). Results indicate that after this training, agreement between observers’ and teachers’ ratings of treatment integrity improved.
