Bridget Cotner is an educational anthropologist and qualitative researcher pursuing a doctoral degree in the Measurement, Research and Evaluation Program in the College of Education, University of South Florida. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from Ball State University in 1998, and her M.A. in Applied Anthropology from the University of South Florida in 2001. Bridget is the project director of the randomized control trial, Replication and Outcomes of the Teaching SMART® Program in Elementary Science Classrooms.

Additionally, Bridget assists with writing grant proposals, works with the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of South Florida, prepares project reports, and writes research papers for publication and/or presentations. Her research interests include working with practitioners to understand how school reform and accountability influence practice in the classroom and school. Bridget Cotner's curriculum vitae is available as a PDF file, here.

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