May 08, 2025, Durham, NC – iRT is excited to announce that we are collaborating with the University of Denver to support their research with elementary school teachers.
iRT will create and deliver brief videos of elementary school students in everyday classroom situations which will be used by the University of Denver for their research studies related to elementary school teachers’ perceptions of student behavior in the classroom. iRT will be working closely with Dr. Kamilah Legette who is the Principal Investigator on the project. Dr. Legette is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Denver as well as the Director of the University’s Reducing Inequities in Student Education (R.I.S.E) laboratory. Her research focuses on how racial biases affect youth academic performance and youth development with the goal of promoting equity for children in school.
Dr. Legette chose to collaborate with iRT for the current project due to our team’s extensive experience in writing and filming videos of children and teenagers for a wide range of products and research projects. iRT’s researchers are adept in hiring, auditioning, and directing children and teenagers to act in videos in a wide range of social situations with peers, teachers, family members, mentors, and other adults across a variety of settings including at school and home, in cars and other forms of transportation, and in the neighborhood, mentoring programs, or sports or other out-of-school programs. iRT’s researchers is experienced in working together on these projects with colleagues from other institutions to support both their research program as well as working as collaborators. In addition, iRT’s staff works as a team of diverse research scientists, research assistants, videographers, and multimedia designers. iRT’s video development abilities have been utilized by several organizations to create stimuli and measures, and conduct research related to youth behavior, interactions between teachers and students, mentoring relationships, youth social information processing skills, and more.
If you are interested in utilizing iRT’s expertise to create videos of youth to support your research, contact info@irtinc.us to schedule a consultation.