Tuan D Nguyen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5071106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tuan D Nguyen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tuan D |
| FAMILY NAME | Nguyen |
| SIGNATURE | NGUYEN T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2920-3333 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Examining the Antecedents and Outcomes of Contemporary Large Teacher Strikes
As teacher strikes remain a prominent phenomenon within the United States, it is critical to examine their prevalence, potential causes, and consequences to understand the evolving dynamics of education policy, labor relations, and teaching as a profession. Using a unique longitudinal dataset of large teacher strikes between 1993 and 2019, we find strikes occur in waves and various economic, socio-political, and occupational factors predict strik…
More often or longer? The effects of the academic schedule on postsecondary academic outcomes
Distributional Trends and the Induction Supports and Preparedness of Early Career Teachers
Using nationally representative data from 2000 to 2021, we examine the distribution of teacher characteristics and qualifications over time, with an emphasis on early career teacher (ECT) qualifications, access to induction supports, and perceptions of preparedness and their distribution across majority-minority, high-poverty, and rural schools. We find the proportion of ECTs and first-year teachers has remained mostly stable and even declined sl…
The supply and quality of STEM teachers
The future of the STEM workforce rests partly on the strength of the STEM teacher workforce to teach and nurture new generations of STEM graduates. However, the STEM teacher workforce is facing critical decline with the annual production dropping from about 31,000 a decade ago to around 20,000 in the last few years. This is concerning given the need for more STEM teachers to meet rising demands. Although production is decreasing, there are improv…
Examining the Supply of New Special Educators
U.S. schools have long experienced shortages of special education teachers (SETs), challenging the nation’s capacity to ensure qualified SETs for students eligible for special education services. Addressing SET shortages requires preparation programs to supply sufficient numbers of new SETs to meet demand, yet prior research provides few insights into trends in the supply of new SETs. Thus, we examined how the supply of new SETs changed over time…
Principal Burnout
Concern about occupational burnout among school principals has grown dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly as a potential driver of high principal turnover. However, a lack of field knowledge about how burnout manifests for principals limits the formation of appropriate policies and practices to address burnout in this population. In this systematic review, we identify the definitions, antecedents, correlates, and consequences of…
New Teachers in Rural America
How do the characteristics of new teachers vary geographically? In this article, Yujia Liu, Chanh B. Lam, J. Cameron Anglum, and Tuan D. Nguyen use a novel rurality measure, the Community Assets and Relative Rurality (CARR) index, to examine trends in teachers entering the profession across different levels of rurality, focusing on teachers in Kansas and Missouri from 2010 through 2023. They highlight pandemic-era changes in the first-year teache…
STEM Teacher Characteristics and Mobility
This study examines the demographics, qualifications, and turnover of STEM teachers in Kansas and Missouri—two contiguous, predominantly rural states in the Midwestern region of the United States. The existing literature lacks detailed insights regarding U.S. STEM teachers, especially with recent economic and social changes over the COVID‐19 pandemic, and there is particularly limited evidence regarding STEM teachers in the U.S. Midwest. Utilizin…
The Effects of Race to the Top on Student Achievement
The purpose of this study is to estimate the impact of Race to the Top (RTTT) on test scores, both overall and in terms of narrowing demographic achievement gaps—a central focus in the original RTTT applications. We draw on student-level NAEP data in reading and mathematics for fourth and eighth graders from 1996 to 2019. An event-study difference-in-difference research design is used to estimate the impact RTTT had on NAEP scores. We show that R…
Revisiting Teaching Quality Gaps
There is continued concern over the inequitable distribution of highly experienced and effective teachers among historically marginalized student populations. Using longitudinal data from Tennessee, this study assesses whether students of racially/ethnically minoritized and economically disadvantaged backgrounds have unequal exposure to teachers based on alternate definitions of teaching quality. We find minoritized and economically disadvantaged…
No Child Left Behind and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Drawing on eight waves of the Schools and Staffing Survey and the National Teacher and Principal Survey, we used a difference-in-differences research design to examine special education teachers’ (SETs) responses to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the subsequent reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). IDEA was associated with decreases in the proportion of SETs with special education as a field of study and grad…
Fieldwork in pro-poor tourism
Tourism studies pay relatively little attention to the importance of reflexivity and metacognition. This article highlights the integral importance of explicitly considering reflexivity and metacognition issues as part of the research process when studying pro-poor tourism (PPT). Hence, the paper presents a reflexive and metacognitive account of the challenges and obstacles encountered while undertaking ethnographic fieldwork in PPT. Drawing on t…
Teacher Working Conditions and Dissatisfaction Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic
With a goal of contextualizing teacher job dissatisfaction during the first full school year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we contrast teachers’ experiences with the decade and a half leading up to the pandemic. We draw on nationally representative data from the Schools and Staffing Survey and National Teacher and Principal Survey from the 2003–04 to 2020–21 school years. Through descriptive and regression analysis, we show that (1) increases in teac…
The Shifting Context of Special Education Teachers’ Work
We used five waves of nationally representative data over 16 years from the Schools and Staffing Survey, National Teacher Principal Survey, and Teacher Follow-up Survey to descriptively examine how the roles, responsibilities, preparation, and supports for special educators have changed over time. We then used regression to investigate how these variables were associated with special educator attrition. This information is essential to ensure tea…
We need to know more about CTE teachers
Over the past year, debates over the prevalence, distribution, and effects of teacher vacancy and underqualification have dominated many education narratives. Authors J. Cameron Anglum, Andrew R. Diemer, Walter G. Ecton, and Tuan D. Nguyen consider these debates in the context of growing interest in career and technical education (CTE) in high school settings. Research on secondary CTE teachers, including the quantification of teacher shortages i…
A conceptual framework of teacher turnover
Rural sustainability methods, drivers, and outcomes
In the past three decades, sustainability science has taken on new importance as interest groups investigate better ways to tackle global challenges—environmental degradation, climate change, and human well‐being—that pose risks to communities, particularly in rural areas. Designs for sustainability require empirical evidence of what works and under what human and environmental conditions. Despite the amount of research that exists, the broad var…
Community assets and relative rurality index
Rurality is often viewed as presenting challenges to community sustainability, well-being, and equity. To address the unique challenges of rural areas, policies and practices have been designed specifically for application in places designated as “rural”. Yet what is “rural”? Some recent measures of rurality have gone beyond a dichotomous rural-urban divide conceptualization of rural communities. However, most measures still emphasize proximity t…
Examining English Language Arts Teachers
Background: Much of the previous research in teacher attrition and retention focuses on teachers in general, without regard to specific types of teachers. We focus on English language arts (ELA) and English as a second language (ESL) teachers because the United States has stubbornly low achievement in reading, and reading is critical to the success of learning other subjects, and because these are the two groups of teachers most responsible for t…
Greener than ever? A look at the newest teachers in our public schools
Drawing on nationally representative data from the 1988 to 2018 school years, the authors provide an overview of some of the key changes in the characteristics of first-year teachers in the U.S., including racial/ethnic identity, education levels, subject area, and certification status. The data also show that new teachers have become increasingly more likely, compared to experienced teachers, to work in schools with a greater fraction of student…
Definitions, measures, and uses of rurality
Teacher Merit Pay
Empirical research investigating the association between teacher pay incentives and student test scores has grown rapidly over the past decade. To integrate the findings from these studies and help inform the debate over teacher merit pay, this meta-analysis synthesizes effect sizes across 37 primary studies, 26 of which were conducted in the United States. Among the U.S. based studies, the results suggest that the effect of teacher merit pay on …
The correlates of teacher turnover
Recent Trends in the Characteristics of New Teachers, the Schools in Which They Teach, and Their Turnover Rates
Background Over the past couple of decades, new teachers have become a pronounced focus of policy makers. This attention is a result of demographic shifts in the teacher labor market, increased attention to the quality of teachers assigned to historically underserved student populations, and high rates of new teacher turnover. Purpose Our goal is to understand how the characteristics of new teachers and the schools in which they teach have change…
Collaboration versus Concreteness
Background Substantial research on reform implementation highlights numerous challenges to implementing innovations at scale with depth and sustainability, yet new reforms continue to encounter many of the same challenges. This has led to calls for researchers to work in partnership with practitioners to design, implement, and scale educational innovations. Although these approaches hold promise, little is known about the internal operations of t…
Teacher Merit Pay
Empirical research investigating the association between teacher pay incentives and student test scores has grown rapidly over the past decade. To integrate the findings from these studies and help inform the debate over teacher merit pay, this meta-analysis synthesizes effect sizes across 37 primary studies, 26 of which were conducted in the United States. Among the U.S. based studies, the results suggest that the effect of teacher merit pay on …
Linking school organizational characteristics and teacher retention
Revisiting Teaching Quality Gaps
There is continued concern over the inequitable distribution of highly experienced and effective teachers among historically marginalized student populations. Using longitudinal data from Tennessee, this study assesses whether students of racially/ethnically minoritized and economically disadvantaged backgrounds have unequal exposure to teachers based on alternate definitions of teaching quality. We find minoritized and economically disadvantaged…
Enhancing the utilization of outpatient mental health services
Community assets and relative rurality index
Rurality is often viewed as presenting challenges to community sustainability, well-being, and equity. To address the unique challenges of rural areas, policies and practices have been designed specifically for application in places designated as “rural”. Yet what is “rural”? Some recent measures of rurality have gone beyond a dichotomous rural-urban divide conceptualization of rural communities. However, most measures still emphasize proximity t…
Social reproduction in Vietnam
The Meanings of Touch
Tuan Nguyen, Richard Heslin, Michele L. Nguyen; The Meanings of Touch: Sex Differences, Journal of Communication, Volume 25, Issue 3, 1 September 1975, Pag
Assessment of client/patient satisfaction
The Role of Frequency and Affective Assessment in Associative Enrichment
It was hypothesized that the meaningful ordering of events made possible by affective assessment can be shown to influence the generation of word-associates to consonant-vowel-consonant trigrams which have previously failed to reflect such word quality. It was also hypothesized that this associative enrichment is independent of such frequency considerations as the nomothetic association value of the items to be learned, or the number of times suc…
Enhancing the utilization of outpatient mental health services
Social reproduction in Vietnam
Improving Boston Nail Salon Indoor Air Quality Through Local Public Health Regulation, 2007–2019
In 2011, following years of outreach and training, Boston, Massachusetts, enacted regulations to improve health and safety in nail salons. These were amended in 2013 to require mechanical ventilation, including dedicated exhaust for each manicure and pedicure station. As of June 2019, 185 of 190 salons have satisfied the regulatory requirements. Regulations can help ensure that environmental health benefits are widespread and that small businesse…
The correlates of teacher turnover
Recent Trends in the Characteristics of New Teachers, the Schools in Which They Teach, and Their Turnover Rates
Background Over the past couple of decades, new teachers have become a pronounced focus of policy makers. This attention is a result of demographic shifts in the teacher labor market, increased attention to the quality of teachers assigned to historically underserved student populations, and high rates of new teacher turnover. Purpose Our goal is to understand how the characteristics of new teachers and the schools in which they teach have change…
Collaboration versus Concreteness
Background Substantial research on reform implementation highlights numerous challenges to implementing innovations at scale with depth and sustainability, yet new reforms continue to encounter many of the same challenges. This has led to calls for researchers to work in partnership with practitioners to design, implement, and scale educational innovations. Although these approaches hold promise, little is known about the internal operations of t…
Linking school organizational characteristics and teacher retention
Examining English Language Arts Teachers
Background: Much of the previous research in teacher attrition and retention focuses on teachers in general, without regard to specific types of teachers. We focus on English language arts (ELA) and English as a second language (ESL) teachers because the United States has stubbornly low achievement in reading, and reading is critical to the success of learning other subjects, and because these are the two groups of teachers most responsible for t…
Greener than ever? A look at the newest teachers in our public schools
Drawing on nationally representative data from the 1988 to 2018 school years, the authors provide an overview of some of the key changes in the characteristics of first-year teachers in the U.S., including racial/ethnic identity, education levels, subject area, and certification status. The data also show that new teachers have become increasingly more likely, compared to experienced teachers, to work in schools with a greater fraction of student…
Definitions, measures, and uses of rurality
Teacher Merit Pay
Empirical research investigating the association between teacher pay incentives and student test scores has grown rapidly over the past decade. To integrate the findings from these studies and help inform the debate over teacher merit pay, this meta-analysis synthesizes effect sizes across 37 primary studies, 26 of which were conducted in the United States. Among the U.S. based studies, the results suggest that the effect of teacher merit pay on …
Community assets and relative rurality index
Rurality is often viewed as presenting challenges to community sustainability, well-being, and equity. To address the unique challenges of rural areas, policies and practices have been designed specifically for application in places designated as “rural”. Yet what is “rural”? Some recent measures of rurality have gone beyond a dichotomous rural-urban divide conceptualization of rural communities. However, most measures still emphasize proximity t…
The Shifting Context of Special Education Teachers’ Work
We used five waves of nationally representative data over 16 years from the Schools and Staffing Survey, National Teacher Principal Survey, and Teacher Follow-up Survey to descriptively examine how the roles, responsibilities, preparation, and supports for special educators have changed over time. We then used regression to investigate how these variables were associated with special educator attrition. This information is essential to ensure tea…
We need to know more about CTE teachers
Over the past year, debates over the prevalence, distribution, and effects of teacher vacancy and underqualification have dominated many education narratives. Authors J. Cameron Anglum, Andrew R. Diemer, Walter G. Ecton, and Tuan D. Nguyen consider these debates in the context of growing interest in career and technical education (CTE) in high school settings. Research on secondary CTE teachers, including the quantification of teacher shortages i…
A conceptual framework of teacher turnover
Rural sustainability methods, drivers, and outcomes
In the past three decades, sustainability science has taken on new importance as interest groups investigate better ways to tackle global challenges—environmental degradation, climate change, and human well‐being—that pose risks to communities, particularly in rural areas. Designs for sustainability require empirical evidence of what works and under what human and environmental conditions. Despite the amount of research that exists, the broad var…
No Child Left Behind and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Drawing on eight waves of the Schools and Staffing Survey and the National Teacher and Principal Survey, we used a difference-in-differences research design to examine special education teachers’ (SETs) responses to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the subsequent reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). IDEA was associated with decreases in the proportion of SETs with special education as a field of study and grad…
Fieldwork in pro-poor tourism
Tourism studies pay relatively little attention to the importance of reflexivity and metacognition. This article highlights the integral importance of explicitly considering reflexivity and metacognition issues as part of the research process when studying pro-poor tourism (PPT). Hence, the paper presents a reflexive and metacognitive account of the challenges and obstacles encountered while undertaking ethnographic fieldwork in PPT. Drawing on t…
Teacher Working Conditions and Dissatisfaction Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic
With a goal of contextualizing teacher job dissatisfaction during the first full school year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we contrast teachers’ experiences with the decade and a half leading up to the pandemic. We draw on nationally representative data from the Schools and Staffing Survey and National Teacher and Principal Survey from the 2003–04 to 2020–21 school years. Through descriptive and regression analysis, we show that (1) increases in teac…
The supply and quality of STEM teachers
The future of the STEM workforce rests partly on the strength of the STEM teacher workforce to teach and nurture new generations of STEM graduates. However, the STEM teacher workforce is facing critical decline with the annual production dropping from about 31,000 a decade ago to around 20,000 in the last few years. This is concerning given the need for more STEM teachers to meet rising demands. Although production is decreasing, there are improv…
Examining the Supply of New Special Educators
U.S. schools have long experienced shortages of special education teachers (SETs), challenging the nation’s capacity to ensure qualified SETs for students eligible for special education services. Addressing SET shortages requires preparation programs to supply sufficient numbers of new SETs to meet demand, yet prior research provides few insights into trends in the supply of new SETs. Thus, we examined how the supply of new SETs changed over time…
Principal Burnout
Concern about occupational burnout among school principals has grown dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly as a potential driver of high principal turnover. However, a lack of field knowledge about how burnout manifests for principals limits the formation of appropriate policies and practices to address burnout in this population. In this systematic review, we identify the definitions, antecedents, correlates, and consequences of…
Psychology (17 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Mathematics education (10 works) · School Choice and Performance (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Business (6 works)