Bridget Dalton

Assistant Professor of Learning, Literacy, and Culture

Ed. D., Harvard University, 1991

Joined faculty in 2007

Short Biography

Professor Dalton’s research interests include literacy and technology, struggling readers, and adolescent literacy. She focuses on the development and study of universally designed scaffolded strategic digital literacy environments for diverse learners. She is particularly interested in improving literacy and engagement outcomes for students who struggle to learn in school.

Bridget is currently collaborating with co-principal investigators Catherine Snow of Harvard University, Patrick Proctor of Boston College, and colleagues at CAST, Inc., on a US DOE Institute of Education Sciences study comparing the effects of digital texts with embedded vocabulary and strategy instruction supports on the reading achievement of Spanish-English bilingual students and English-only students.

She recently completed another IES reading comprehension project with co-principal investigator Annemarie Palincsar of the University of Michigan. The latter study investigated the role of interactive diagrams and pedagogical agents in supporting students' comprehension of science text.

Prior to joining Vanderbilt, Bridget served as the Chief Officer of Literacy and Technology for CAST, Inc., a non-profit research and development organization that develops and applies universal design for learning theory and practice. She also was an Associate Professor at the University of Guam, where she directed the Literacy Lab and coordinated the graduate program in Language and Literacy, and was a Lecturer in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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