[NIFL-WOMENLIT:2565] research question

From: Daphne Greenberg (alcdgg@langate.gsu.edu)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 17:51:09 EDT


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As many of you are aware, I received an NICHD/NIFL/OVAE sponsored grant to study the effectiveness of different reading instructional approaches with adults who read between the 3rd and 5th grade levels. In a previous post I mentioned, that as issues came up, I would share them for feedback with this group.
Something recently came up and I invite feedback.
We screen students who are interested in being part of the study, by administering a few reading tests. If they read within the required range (3rd -5th grade) we invite them to be part of the study. Potential students are given my telephone number to call if they have any questions/concerns. One day, when I returned to my office a few hours after screening a student, and telling her that she had qualified, I hear a message on my voice mail from her husband wanting me to call him back to tell him about the program. I didn't know what to do. I did not ask nor receive permission from this student to talk to anyone about her. I decided not to call and to try to talk to the student and ask her what she wanted me to do. For a few days I looked for her at the adult literacy program and she was not in attendance. In the meantime, her husband called everyday, leaving a voicemail message for me.
Before I tell you my concerns about calling/not calling her husband, and before I tell you what I did, I am wondering if anyone feels like sharing what your concerns may be if any, and if you would have called him back.
Daphne

Daphne Greenberg
Associate Director
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy
MSC 6A0360
Georgia State University
33 Gilmer Street SE Unit 6
Atlanta, GA 30303-3086
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
dgreenberg@gsu.edu



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