USF Rightpath Research and Innovation Center
The USF Rightpath Research and Innovation Center’s primary mission is to employ cutting edge research methods to develop, evaluate, and disseminate tools, strategies, and programs that elevate achievement of vulnerable children. Rightpath, with a focus on prevention, will work to improve language, literacy and mathematics development in young children who are at risk of poor outcomes due to limited English language proficiency, low socioeconomic and ethnic minority backgrounds, or those who have communication, learning, behavioral or intellectual disabilities.
Projects
- Development of a Dual Language Narrative Curriculum
- School Readiness Curriculum based Measurement System (SRCBM)
- The Effect of Definitions, Contextual Support, and Cognate Status on 4th Grade Spanish-Speaking English Learner's Understanding of Unfamiliar Words
- Effect of Bilingual vs Monolingual Methods of Explicit English Vocabulary Instruction on 4th Grade Spanish-speaking English Learners (EL)
Recent Publications
- Assessment and Technology: Mapping Future Directions in the Early Childhood Classroom
- Development of a Dual Language Narrative Curriculum:Graphical Abstract of Report
- Prediction of English and Spanish kindergarten mathematics from English and Spanish cognitive and linguistic abilities in Hispanic dual language learn
