Keith Ben-Hanania Lenz
Keith Ben-Hanania Lenz, Ph.D., is a senior disability researcher in the Center for Education and Human Services at SRI International. He has been an educator and researcher in education and special education for more than 30 years. Throughout his professional career, Lenz has focused on the design, validation, and evaluation of interventions to promote the success of students in secondary schools, including students with disabilities.
Most recently, Lenz codirected research on the evaluation of the Intel® Reader as a reading accommodation for students with learning disabilities. He is also involved in a variety of SRI projects related to the design of impact evaluations of various interventions, and he assists with the design of evaluation instruments and data collection efforts for the Impact Evaluation of Fusion Reading on Adolescent Reading in Michigan. Lenz has conducted a variety of large-scale state and multistate research projects to evaluate the impact of educational programs and school-wide interventions.
Lenz is one of the original developers of the Strategic Instruction Model (SIM), the Learning Strategies Curriculum, the Content Enhancement Series, and the Content Literacy Continuum. He is also the developer of the Graphic Interactive System for Teaching (GIST) software that teachers throughout the United States use to plan and implement research-based interventions based on the principles of UDL (Universal Design for Learning) and strategic instruction in general education classrooms.
Lenz was a senior researcher at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning and a faculty member in the Department of Special Education for more than 20 years before joining SRI in 2010. He has published numerous books, journal articles, and instructional materials. He received his Ph.D. in special education from the University of Kansas.
Key projects
- Evaluation of the Effects of the Intel® Reader on Improving the Reading Performance of Adolescents with Learning Disabilities
- Impact Evaluation of Fusion Reading on Adolescent Reading in Michigan
- Model Demonstration Data Coordination Center
- Design and IDEA-Related Analysis for the National Assessment (DIANA)
