Douglas Hartman, Ph.D. Professor, Curriculum & Instruction, Neag School of Education 249 Glenbrook Road Unit 2033 Storrs, CT 06269-2033 Phone: (860) 486-1154 Email: douglas.hartman@uconn.edu

Research Overview
Dr. Hartman focuses on the online health literacy practices of adolescents — what health-related information do teens seek online? How and where do they find the information online? What sense do they make of the online information? And what behavioral change — if any — results from their understanding of the online information?

Dr. Hartman also has interests in developing the health literacy awareness of new physicians and increasing general physician awareness of the literacy demands that print, images, figures, icons, and other signs place on patients when used in prescriptions and treatment plans.

Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, 1991 (literacy & language)
M.Ed., California State University-Fresno, 1986 (reading education)
B.S., Warner Pacific College, 1981 (social science)

Featured Publications

Leu, D.J., Castek, J., Hartman, D.K., Coiro, J., Henry, L.A., Kulikowich, J.M., & Lyver, S. (2005). Evaluating the development of scientific knowledge and new forms of reading comprehension during online learning. Final Research Report. Naperville, IL: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory/Learning Point Associates.

Hartman, D.K. (2004). Deconstructing the reader, the text, and the context: Intertextuality and reading from a ‘cognitive’ perspective. In N. Shuart-Faris & D. Bloome (Eds.), Uses of Intertextuality in Classroom and Educational Research (pp. 353-372). Greenwich, CT: Information Age.

Hefflin, B.R., & Hartman, D.K. (2002). Using writing to improve comprehension: A review of the writing-to-reading research. In C. Block & L. Gambrell (Eds.), Comprehension instruction: Building on the past and improving instruction for today’students. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Hartman, D.K. (2000). What will be the influences of media on literacy in the next millennium. Reading Research Quarterly, 35 (2), 280-282.

Hartman, D.K. (1995). Eight readers reading: The intertextual links of proficient readers using multiple passages. Reading Research Quarterly, 30 (3), 520-561.