Jennifer Iriti

Research Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center

Lab

https://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/efl/

Education and Training

PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests

• Expanding college access and success
• Reduce systemic barriers for racially/ethnically minoritizes students to access and succeed in postsecondary education
• Reduce racial/ethnic disparities in STEM fields
• Use of continuous improvement methodologies in education
• Use of networked improvement communities to effect large-scale change in education
• Developmental evaluation
• Decision-oriented educational research
• Research-practitioner partnerships

Recent Publications

Lowry, D., Page, L. C., Nurshatayeva, A., & Iriti, J. (2024). Subtraction by addition: Do private scholarship awards lead to financial aid displacement?. Economics of Education Review, 99, 102517.

Miler-Adams, M. & Iriti, J. (Eds.) "The Free College Handbook: A Practitioner's Guide to Promise Research"  Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.  

Iriti, J., Stol, T., Sherer, J.Z., Briggs, A., & Slinskey Legg, A. (2022). Root cause analysis as  a tool for forging shared vision and partnership: Lessons for strengthening the process. NSF INCLUDES Rapid Community Reports.

Page, L., Iriti, J., Lowry, D., & Anthony, A. (2020). The Promise of place-based investment in college access and success: Investigating the impact of the Pittsburgh Promise. Education Finance and Policy, 14(4), 572-600.

Allen, A., Ball, M., Bild, D., Boone, D., Briggs, D., Davis, D., Delale-O’Connor, L., Gonda, R., Iriti, J., Slinskey Legg, A., Long, C., Matthis, C., Sherer, J. Z., and Stol, T. (2020, October). Leveraging out-of-school STEM programs during COVID-19. Brief in National Science Teaching Association, Connected Science Learning, October-December 2020 (Volume 2, Issue 4).

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