Peter Afflerbach
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction,
University of Maryland at College Park
Dr. Peter Afflerbach is a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Afflerbach holds an M.S. in Developmental Reading and a Ph.D. in Reading Education from the University of Albany. Before receiving his doctorate, he was a Title I elementary teacher, a junior high school teacher, and a high school teacher.
Dr. Afflerbach's research interests include literacy assessment, the alignment of reading assessment with reading standards, and text comprehension strategies. His research has been published in The Reading Teacher, Language Arts, Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Reading Behavior, Elementary School Journal, and Educational Assessment. He is an editor of the Handbook of Reading Research. His books, as author and co-author, include Balancing Principles for Teaching Elementary Reading, Verbal Reports of Reading: The Nature of Constructively Responsive Reading, Authentic Assessment: Practices and Possibilities, and Developing Engaged Readers in School and Home Communities. Dr. Afflerbach is a member of the Reading Committee of the National Assessment of Educational Progress and the 2009 Reading Framework Committee of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Science and Technology Committee of the Smithsonian Institution.
