Indiana University School of Journalism

Professor

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Adjunct Associate Professor, Director of Summer Workshops and Executive Secretary of the Iowa High School Press Association, The University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 1981-86; Associate Professor (1980-81) and Assistant Professor (1974-80), Northeast Missouri State University; Teacher and Publications Adviser, McGuinness High School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1967-72, and LaSalle High School, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1966-67.

Assistant Editor, Quill & Scroll magazine, 1981-86; part-time Reporter/Photographer, The Kansas City Star and Times (Mo.), 1974-77; City Hall Reporter, Columbia Missourian (Mo.), 1972; Promotions, Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.), summer, 1969.

Member: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication; Society of Professional Journalists; Journalism Education Association, Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association; Phi Delta Kappa.

Co-author of a book, Journalism Kids Do Better: What Research Tells Us about High School Journalism (1994). Articles about high school journalism published in various journals.

AEJMC Scholastic Journalism Division 2001 Journalism Educator of the Year. AEJMC/SJD Honors Lecturer 1999. Inducted into the National Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame, 1997. Winner of 1996 Gretchen Kemp Teaching Fellowship. Iowa High School Press Association Hall of Fame, 1996. Named 1986 Outstanding Journalism Faculty Member by Society of Professional Journalists chapter at The University of Iowa. Pioneer Award of the National Scholastic Press Association, 1992; Medal of Merit of the Journalism Education Association, 1987; Gold Key Award of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, 1986.

Secondary school journalism, reporting, editing, ethics, mass media.

Professor Dvorak's research focuses on high school journalism. Recent projects include:

• A comparison of high school journalism student performance on Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Examinations, 1989-1997. Journalism students were compared with honors students who took the same AP exam following an advanced English composition course. For the past seven years, a higher percentage of Journalism students than AP English students passed the examination, which is comprised of three writing passages and some language, usage, punctuation and syntax questions. Various aspects of the findings have been published in an AEJMC Mid-winter Meeting research paper, an article in Communication: Journalism Education Today (a publication for high school journalism teachers), and an article in the Fall 1998 Journalism & Mass Communication Educator.
• A national study of the status of Journalism in the nation's high schools. This 1998 survey of a random sample of the country's 23,000 high schools examines school demographics, the scope of Journalism class offerings and media outlets, journalism educators' attitudes and information about their roles as teachers/advisers, and demographic information about journalism educators. The longitudinal study will compare several findings of a similar study completed in 1991. It is funded by a grant from the IU School of Journalism.

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