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Office: 803 LRDC
Phone: (412) 624-8765
Richard Correnti
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Education
Research Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center
Research Interests
Dr. 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.
Walsh, M., Matsumura, L.C., Zook-Howell, D., Correnti, R., & Bickel, D.D. (2020). Video-based literacy coaching to develop teachers' professional vision for dialogic classroom text discussions. Teaching and Teacher Education, 89.
Russell, J.L., Correnti, R., Stein, M.K., Thomas, A., Bill, V. & Speranzo, L. (2020). Mathematics Coaching for Conceptual Understanding: Promising Evidence Regarding the Tennessee Math Coaching Model. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
Howe, E. & Correnti, R. (2020). Negotiating the Political and Pedagogical Tensions of Writing Rubrics: Using Conceptualization to Work toward Sociocultural Writing Instruction. English Education, 52(4), 335-360.
Correnti, R., Matsumura, L.C., Walsh, M., Zook-Howell, D., Bickel, D.D. & Yu, B. (2020). Effects of Online Content-Focused Coaching on Discussion Quality and Reading Achievement: Building Theory for How Coaching Develops Teachers' Adaptive Expertise. Reading Research Quarterly.
Wang, E.L., Matsumura, L.C., Correnti, R., Litman, D., Zhang, H., Howe, E., Magooda, A., & Quintana, R. (2020). eRevis(ing): Students’ revision of text evidence use in an automated writing evaluation system. Assessing Writing.
Yurekli, B., Stein, M., Correnti, R., & Kisa, Z. (2020). Teaching Mathematics for Conceptual Understanding: Teachers' Beliefs and Practices and the Role of Constraints. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 51(2), 234-247.
Russell, J. L., Correnti, R., Stein, J. K., Bill, V., Hannan, M., Schwartz, N., Booker, L., & Pratt, N. R. (2020). Learning from adaptation to support instructional improvement at scale: Understanding coach adaptation in the TN Mathematics Coaching Project.American Educational Research Journal, (1).
Correnti, R., Matsumura, L.C., Wang, E., Litman, D., Rahimi, Z., & Kisa, Z. (2020). Automated Scoring of Students Use of Text Evidence in Writing. Reading Research Quarterly, 55(3).
Matsumura, L.C., Wang, E., Correnti, R. & Litman, D. (2020). What do Teachers want to see in Automated Writing Evaluation Systems? eSchool News Innovations in Educational Transformation.
Matsumura, L. C., Zook-Howell, D., Bickel, D. D., Walsh, M., & Correnti, R. (2019). Harnessing the power of video to increase classroom text discussion quality. Reading Teacher, 1-10.
Matsumura, L. C., Correnti, R., Walsh, M., Zook-Howell, D., & Bickel, D.D. (2019). Online content-focused coaching to increase classroom text discussion quality. Journal of Technology, Pedagogy and Education.
Correnti, R., Matsumura, L.C., Wang, E., Litman, D., Rahimi, Z., & Kisa, Z. (2019). Automated scoring of students' use of text evidence in writing. International Literacy Association.
Russell, J. L., Correnti, R., Stein, M. K., Bill, V., Hannan, M., Schwartz, N., & Matthis, C. (2019). Learning from adaptation to support instructional improvement at scale: understanding coach adaptation in the TN mathematics coaching project. American Educational Research Journal.
Quintana, R. & Correnti, R. (2019). The concept of academic mobility: Normative and methodological considerations. American Educational Research Journal, 20(10), 1-40.
Wallace, T. L., Parr, A. K., & Correnti, R. J. (2019). Assessing teachers’ classroom management competency: A case study of the classroom assessment scoring system–secondary. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment.
Quintana, R., & Correnti, R. (2018). The right to argue: teaching and assessing everyday argumentation skills. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 1-19.
Wang., E., Matsumura, L. C., & Correnti, R. (2018). Student writing accepted as high-quality responses to analytic responses to analytic text-based writing tasks. Elementary School Journal 18(3), 357-383.
Correnti, R., Thomas, A., Baeksan, Y., Russell, J., Booker, L., Schwartz, N., & Stein, M. K. (2017). Prospective Matching Methods in Education Research: Recruiting an Active Comparison Sample for Causal Inference, Proceedings of the SREE 2017 Conference.
Wang, E., Matsumura, L. C., & Correnti, R. (2017). Written feedback to support students’ higher level thinking about texts in writing. Reading Teacher.
Rahimi, Z., Litman, D., Correnti, R., Wang, E., & Matsumura, L. C. (2017). Assessing students’ use of evidence and organization in response-to-text Writing: Using natural language processing for rubric-based automated scoring. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 1-35.
Wang, E., Matsumura, L. C., & Correnti, R. (2017). Making a CASE: Improving use of text evidence in students’ writing. Reading Teacher, 70(4), 479-484.
Munter, C., & Correnti, R. (2017). Examining relations between mathematics teachers’ instructional vision and knowledge and change in practice. American Journal of Education, 123(2), 171-202.
Stein, M. K., Correnti, R., Moore, D., Russell, J. L., Kelly, K. (2017). Using theory and measurement to sharpen conceptualizations of mathematics teaching in the Common Core era. AERA Open, 3(1).
Bill, V., Booker, L., Correnti, R., Russell, J., Schwartz, N., & Stein, M.K. (2017). Tennessee scales up improved math instruction through coaching. The Journal of the National Association of State Boards of Education, 17(2), 22-27.
Wang, E., Matsumura, L. C., DiPrima-Bickel, D., Correnti, R., Zook-Howell, D., Prine, D., & Walsh, M. (2016). Web-based professional development to improve text discussions. In EAPRIL Conference Proceedings 2015. Belval, Luxembourg. European Association for Practitioner Research on Improving Learning.
The James S. McDonnell Foundation has awarded a five-year, $2.5 million grant to Principal Investigator Mary Kay Stein, LRDC Associate Director for Educational Research and Practice, and Co-Investigators Chris Schunn, Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Jennifer Russell, and Richard Correnti for their research, entitled "Teacher Learning to Enact Productive Discussions in Mathematics and Literacy."
December 15, 2017
Richard Correnti, LRDC Research Scientist and Associate Professor, School of Education, and co-Principal Investigators Mary Kay Stein, Associate Director for Educational Research and Practice, and Jennifer Russell, LRDC Research Scientist and Associate Professor, School of Education were awarded a 2017 Spencer Foundation grant for “Improvement of Mathematics Teaching At-Scale.”
2017
Diane Litman, Richard Correnti, and Lindsay Clare Matsumura, LRDC Research Scientists have been awarded an IES grant for their project, "Response-to-Text Tasks to Assess Students' Use of Evidence and Organization in Writing: Using Natural Language Processing for Scoring Writing and Providing Feedback At-Scale."
July 1, 2016
Meghan Bathgate, Chris Schunn, and Rip Correnti’s research on Childrens’ responses to science across settings is featured in the May 2016 Relating Research to Practice Brief, a website supported by the National Science Foundation.
May 31, 2016
An IES grant has been awarded for the project For Argument’s Sake: Applying Questioning the Author Techniques to Support Comprehension and Composition of Written Argument (PI: Amy Crosson; Co-PI’s: Moddy McKeown, Lindsay Matsumura, Rip Correnti)
July 2015
The Pittsburgh Business Times reported on Jennifer Russell and co-investigators Mary Kay Stein, Victoria Bill, Richard Correnti and Lindsay Clare Matsumura and Tennessee Department of Education co-investigators Emily Barton and Nate Schwartz. “Coaching to Improve Common Core Aligned Mathematics Instruction in Tennessee” was awarded a Continuous Improvement Research in Education Grant from the Institute for Education Sciences (IES).
July 2014
Congratulations to Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Richard Correnti, and Donna DiPrima Bickel. “Web-Mediated Professional Development for High-Quality Reading Comprehension Instruction,” received an Institute for Education Sciences (IES) grant.
July 2014
Congratulations to Jennifer Russell and co-investigators Mary Kay Stein, Victoria Bill, Richard Correnti and Lindsay Clare Matsumura and my co-investigators at the Tennessee Department of Education co-investigators Emily Barton and Nate Schwartz. “Coaching to Improve Common Core Aligned Mathematics Instruction in Tennessee” was awarded a Continuous Improvement Research in Education Grant from the Institute for Education Sciences (IES).
July 2014
Principal Investigator Jennifer Iriti and Co-PIs, William Bickel, Lindsay Page, and Rip Correnti, received a grant for "Evidence-based Tools for Right-Matching Students' Postsecondary Selections" from the Pittsburgh Promise. The research is designed to provide the Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS), the Pittsburgh Promise, and Propel Charter Schools with a better understanding of the post-secondary patterns of their graduates, how to improve these patterns, and solution frameworks and tools customized to challenges and opportunities identified.
June 2014
Mary Kay Stein, Rip Correnti, Jen Russell and colleagues, awarded grants to work with Tennessee educators implementing the Common Core Standards
October 7, 2013
The University of Pittsburgh
AERA Distinguished Dissertation Award
2006
Charles Milne Greig Award
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Spencer Fellowship
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Graduated Magna Cum Laude
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dean's List
1990-1994
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Psi Chi National Honor Society
Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society
Golden Key National Honor Society