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Regie Stites

Program Manager

Regie Stites, Ph.D., has research interests and experience in literacy education, adult basic education, English as a second language (ESL) education, standards-based education reform, educational program and learning technology evaluation, work readiness, and language and literacy skills assessment.

Since 1997, Dr. Stites has directed research, development, and evaluation projects for the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institute for Literacy, numerous state departments of education and labor, foundations, and private clients. Major projects include evaluation of the Packard Reading Lions project (K–3 implementation of Open Court in California schools), evaluation of the PBS Adult Learning Service Project CONNECT (adult ESL learning online), development of the assessment framework for the Equipped for the Future (EFF) adult learning standards, development of the online assessment battery for the National Work Readiness Credential, and evaluation of the Content Rich Vocabulary intervention for struggling readers in middle school.

Before coming to SRI, Dr. Stites was a senior researcher in the National Center on Adult Literacy (NCAL), Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. His research focused on adult literacy standards, literacy skills retention, applications of advanced technologies to adult learning, and evaluation of effective practices in adult basic literacy instruction. In the early 1990s, Dr. Stites was a researcher in the national Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA, where he conducted research on standards policy and performance assessment. He also has experience as a college instructor and as a teacher of English to speakers of other languages in the United States and in the People's Republic of China.

Dr. Stites has made numerous presentations at professional meetings and has published widely on topics related to adult literacy and ESL education, education standards and assessment, and evaluation of learning technology. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin, San Francisco State University, and UCLA.