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Richard Correnti

 
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Richard Correnti
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5801 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-1781
EMAIL: rcorrent@pitt.edu

Full Time Faculty - Assistant Professor/Research Scientist

Richard Correnti's research interests include how educational innovations influence teacher practice and how teacher practice influences student learning. He studies how policy and educational reform initiatives can improve instruction and student learning, and how these efforts are influenced by issues of implementation and scaling-up. His recent work includes evaluations of 1) CSR program effects on instruction, 2) content specific professional development on teacher practice, and 3) CSR program effects on student achievement. All of these analyses used data from the Study of Instructional Improvement and employed propensity stratification methods and sensitivity analyses to generate causal claims from quasi-experimental data.

School Affiliations

  • Department: Dean's Office
  • Department: Learning Policy Center - Assistant Professor
  • Program: Learning Sciences and Policy

Education

  • PhD, Ed. Administration and Policy, University of Michigan, 6/2005
  • M.S., Human Resource Counseling, Northeastern University, 5/1996
  • B.S., Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 5/1994

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

  • Rowan, B., & Correnti, R., & Miller, R., & Camburn, E. (in press, 2008). School improvement by design: Lessons from a study of Comprehensive School Reform programs. In Schneider, B., & Sykes, D. (ED.s) AERA Handbook on Education Policy Research.

Journal Articles

  • Correnti, R. (2007). An Empirical Investigation of Professional Development Effects on Literacy Instruction Using Daily Logs. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v.29 (4), 262-295.

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Recent Course Instruction

Summer 2008 (2087)

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Recent Grants

  • Measuring classroom discussions in Mathematics and Literacy. Purpose: To investigate dimensions of classroom discussion that are important for student learning and to create rubrics for scoring discussions. Scoring discussions will be valuable for researchers as well as for professional development with teachers. Source: Learning Research and Development Center. Amount: $160,737

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