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Gary J Natriello

Ruth L. Gottesman Professor in Educational Research

Professor of Sociology and Education

212-678-3087

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470 GDodge

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TC Affiliations:

Human Development

Educational Background

A.B. Princeton University; A.M., Ph.D. Stanford University

Scholarly Interests

Social organization of online learning. Social dimensions of performance assessment. School and classroom organization. Schooling for youth placed at-risk.

Selected Publications

Natriello, G. (2021). Digital-Age Innovation in Higher Education: A Do-It-Yourself Approach. New York: Routledge.

Natriello, G. (2021). Using learning analytics to accelerate change. Chapter 23 in S. Jagannathan (ed.). Reimagining Digital Learning for Sustainable Development: How Upskilling, Learning Analytics and Educational Technologies Close the Skills Gap, (pp. 282-292) New York: Routledge.

Natriello, G. (2019). At-risk students. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.921

Natriello, G. (2017). lThe Adaptive Learning Landscape. Teachers College Record, 19(3), 1-46.

Chae, H.S. & Natriello, G. (eds.) (2017). Adaptive Learning Opportunities – A Special Issue of the Teachers College Record, 19(3).

Natriello, G. (2015). Networked Learning. Handbook of Educational Psychology, APA Division 15. New York: Routledge.

Natriello, G. (2012). Online assessment and diverse learners. In J. Banks, (ed.). Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Asunka, S., H. Chae, & G. Natriello. (2011). Towards an understanding of the use of an institutional repository with integrated social networking tools: A case study of PocketKnowledge. Library and Information Science Research, 33, 80-88.

Natriello, G. & H. Chae. (2010). Grading. Pp. 484-487 in C. Clauss-Ehlers (ed.). Encylopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology. Berlin: Springer.

Anwar, F., H. Chae, & G. Natriello. (2010). NetPosse: A tool for connecting users in virtual communities. "font-family: 'Times New Roman Italic'; ">Journal of Systems, Cybernetics, and Informatics, 8, 1, 67-71.

Asunka, S., H. Chae, B. Hughes, & G. Natriello. (2009). Understanding academic information seeking habits through analysis of web server log files: The case of the Teachers College library website. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 35(1), 33-45.

Natriello, G. (2009). High stakes testing and teaching to the test. Pp. 1079-1089 in L.J. Saha and A.G. Dworkin (eds.). The New International Handbook of Teachers and Teaching. Berlin: Springer.

Natriello, G. & Hughes, B. (2008). Learning in libraries. Pp. 188-198 in T. Good (ed.). 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Natriello G. (2007). Imagining, seeking, inventing: The future of learning and emerging discovery networks. Learning Inquiry, 1, 1, 7-18.

Natriello, G. & M. Rennick. (2006). An Online Journal as a Virtual Learning Environment. In J. Weiss, J. Nolan, & P. Trifonas, (eds.), International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Natriello, G. (2005). Modest Changes, Revolutionary Possibilities: Distance Learning and the Future of Education. Teachers College Record, 107, 6, 1885-1904.

Carolan B. & G. Natriello. (2005). Data Mining Journals and Books: Using the Science of Networks to Uncover the Structure of the Educational Research Community. Educational Researcher, 34, 3, 23-33.

Biographical Information

Gary Natriello is the Gottesman Professor of Educational Research and Professor of Sociology and Education in the Department of Human Development at Teachers College, Columbia University. Professor Natriello teaches graduate courses in the social organization of schools and classrooms, the social dimensions of assessment processes, the sociology of online learning, and research methods.

Professor Natriello is the Director of the Teachers College EdLab, a design and development unit devoted to creating new educational possibilities for the information age. Professor Natriello is the executive editor of the Teachers College Record and the Director of the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College.

Professor Natriello holds an A.B. (English) from Princeton University, an A.M. (sociology) from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. (sociology of education) from Stanford University. He has also been a post-doctoral fellow in the NIMH Program in Structurally Induced Social Problems and Mental Health in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University.

Professor Natriello's research interests include school organization, evaluation, at-risk youth, and the sociology of online learning. Professor Natriello is the author of several books, including Schooling Disadvantaged Children: Racing Against Catastrophe (with E.L. McDill and A.M. Pallas) and From Cashbox to Classroom (with W. Firestone and M. Goertz). Recent articles include: Data Mining Journals and Books: Using the Science of Networks to Uncover the Structure of the Educational Research Community (with Brian Carolan); Modest Changes, Revolutionary Possibilities: Distance Learning and the Future of Education; Imagining, Seeking, Inventing: The Future of Learning and Emerging Discovery Networks; and Online Assessment and Diverse Learners.

TC Forum: Professor Natriello Says Cost to Meet New State Standards Could Reach $3.5 Billion

In his remarks to an audience of 50 New York City metropolitan school superintendents who attended the TC Forum, an education-policy seminar, Gary Natriello, Professor of Sociology and Education, and the author of a new report, spoke about "Estimating the Resources Necessary to Meet the New Standards."

Renovation Plans for the Milbank Memorial Library

After a review of the programs and services of Milbank Memorial Library, James G. Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University and Sonja Johnson, Director of Facilities Programming and Utilization, Indiana University, wrote a report on the improvement of TC's library.

Shaping the Public Debate on Education

John Allegrante, Professor of Health Education and President and CEO of the National Center for Health Education (NCHE), testified this year before the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies.

The Education Guy

Matthew Pittinsky has founded a billion-dollar company, but his heart is in the classroom.

A Campaign for Equity: Across the State

Michael Rebell and the Campaign for Fiscal Equity are finishing what Brown v. the Board of Education started. Come to TC and take his class.

TC's Gary Natriello: Realizing the Promise of New Education Technologies

Web tools could deliver personalized instruction that builds on each student's strengths and addresses individual weaknesses," the EdLab director writes in Education Week, but skeptics need convincing.

"There's an App for That"

Realizing the Promise of Technology in the Classroom

E-Tools for Thriving at TC-- and Beyond

Like the city itself, the College can be challenging to navigate. Some new technologies developed in-house might ease your way, here and elsewhere

Connecting Teaching to Research

A major conference at TC lays out a vision for equipping new teachers to use the growing body of scientific knowledge about how people learn.

When Less is More

The creation of a new Education Policy and Social Analysis Department, announced in January, clearly strengthens Teachers College's expertise in the policy arena. But it also creates a more logical and focused alignment within another department -- Human Development -- that is giving up some of its faculty members to the new effort.