College of Education
UF Literacy Institute (UFLI)
Led by Holly Lane · Special Education, School Psychology and Early Childhood Studies
What we study
Dr. Lane's lab focuses on improving reading instruction and teacher training, especially using evidence-based phonics programs like UFLI Foundations. Research involves developing and evaluating effective literacy interventions for students with learning disabilities.
What working here is like
- Human participants
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Project READERS
A project focused on advancing literacy education and research.
Project DECODE
A project aimed at training educators to support students with dyslexia.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Criteria for Accurate Oral Reading to Indicate Difficulties with Reading Decoding
2026 · Reading & Writing Quarterly
Sets guidelines for using reading accuracy to spot students struggling with decoding.
- An Observational Study of Student Reading Engagement During UFLI Intensive Intervention*
2025 · Reading & Writing Quarterly
Observes how students engage in reading during summer tutoring sessions.
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- The Impact of School‐Based Personnel Delivered Coaching and Performance Feedback on Elementary Teachers' Use of Behavior Specific Praise
2025 · Psychology in the Schools
Shows how school staff feedback improves teachers' use of praise in classrooms.
- Convergence, Divergence, and Predictive Validity in Depression and Suicidality Screening Tools with Adjudicated Youth Across Ethnicity
2025 · Behavioral Disorders
Tests whether depression and suicidality screening tools work similarly across ethnic groups.
- Examining Differential Intervention Effects: Do Individualized Student Intervention Effects Vary by Student Abilities and Characteristics?
2025 · Exceptional Children
Checks if a reading program works equally well for different kinds of students.
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