Hsien‐Yuan Hsu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6366996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hsien‐Yuan Hsu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hsien‐Yuan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hsu |
| SIGNATURE | HSU H Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Lowell |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2155-2093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond Learning Loss
The pandemic disrupted schools’ ability to provide students with essential academic and social-emotional resources. To date, research on pandemic-related learning loss has focused on standardized test scores and absenteeism, leaving the impact on student experiences underexplored. This study examines 6 years of student survey data to assess how student experience outcomes changed before, during, and after the pandemic. Using piecewise growth mode…
Caregiver experiences with special education in Massachusetts
Research suggests that schools face significant challenges when attempting to provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to students with disabilities and that their caregivers may be marginalised during IEP development, implementation and progress monitoring. This study investigated the special education experiences of Massachusetts caregivers. An electronic survey was developed through a comprehensive literature review and expert panel …
STEM Magnet High Schools and Student Intent to Declare a STEM Major
This study employed design-based logistic regression to examine the extent to which attending a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) magnet high school, school demographics, and student-level factors explain a student’s intent to declare a STEM major in the first semester of college. The results show only student-level factors are statistically significantly associated with a student’s likelihood of intending to declare a STEM…
Thickening serious leisure
Gould et al.’s (2008) Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure (SLIM) and its short version were widely used to quantify dimensions of serious leisure for more than a decade. The purpose of this paper is to inform future research directions by reviewing studies employed SLIM to identify diverse SLIM practices and summarise present research findings. A total of 34 journal articles published in English between 2008 and 2019 were reviewed. Results reve…
Investigating the Impact of Covariate Inclusion on Sample Size Requirements of Factor Mixture Modeling
Factor mixture modeling (FMM) has been increasingly used in behavioral and social sciences to capture underlying population heterogeneity. This Monte Carlo simulation study investigated a common issue in applications of FMM, sample size requirements, particularly taking into account the impact of covariate inclusion. Results indicated that it was critical to include a proper covariate into FMM for accurate class enumeration and the required sampl…
A comparative analysis of instructional coaching approaches
Replication of combined school readiness interventions for teachers and parents of head start pre-kindergarteners using remote delivery
Soft and hard variables in determining pre‐service teachers' intentions and decisions to pursue a special education career
This study examined the roles of hard variables and soft variables in determining college teachers' intentions to pursue a special education career and education majors' actual decisions to major in special education. This study surveyed 243 college students taking special education courses at a state university, including 213 education majors. The survey questions included four blocks of variables, pertaining to demographics, training and work e…
The Texas Kindergarten Entry Assessment
There is a significant need for kindergarten entry assessments (KEA) that meet state education agency (SEA) requirements and are psychometrically sound measures of a broad range of school readiness domains such as language, literacy, math, science, executive function, and social-emotional skills. Research Findings: In this paper, we describe five phases of development, calibration, and launch of a new KEA for a large state. We developed and teste…
Assessing Quality in Systematic Literature Reviews
This study investigated performance variability when graduate students critically appraised original studies from a systematic review. Fourteen doctoral students from different academic programs, with no systematic review experience, received training on the Methodological Quality Questionnaire (MQQ) rating scale. Participants were mostly male (71%) and non-native English speakers (79%). Each rater was randomly assigned one original study to inde…
A person-centred approach to understanding cultures of assessment
The purpose of the present study was to investigate how faculty members coalesce into distinguishable groups in terms of their perceived cultures of assessment at their respective institutions. To date, although researchers have posited the existence of various cultures of assessment, no study to our knowledge has empirically demonstrated the presence of these unobserved (latent) cultures analytically. Accordingly, a latent profile analysis was c…
The Impact of Intraclass Correlation on the Effectiveness of Level-Specific Fit Indices in Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling
Several researchers have recommended that level-specific fit indices should be applied to detect the lack of model fit at any level in multilevel structural equation models. Although we concur with their view, we note that these studies did not sufficiently consider the impact of intraclass correlation (ICC) on the performance of level-specific fit indices. Our study proposed to fill this gap in the methodological literature. A Monte Carlo study …
Detecting Misspecified Multilevel Structural Equation Models with Common Fit Indices
This study investigated the sensitivity of common fit indices (i.e., RMSEA, CFI, TLI, SRMR-W, and SRMR-B) for detecting misspecified multilevel SEMs. The design factors for the Monte Carlo study were numbers of groups in between-group models (100, 150, and 300), group size (10, 20, 30, and 60), intra-class correlation (low, medium, and high), and the types of model misspecification (Simple and Complex). The simulation results showed that CFI, TLI…
The Impact of Basic-Level Parent Engagements on Student Achievement
Strong empirical evidence exists in general education that links parent involvement to student academic achievement, but such evidence is lacking in special education. Moreover, most prior research investigated parent involvement as a broadly defined term that included various types of parent engagements. As a result, it is difficult to estimate the effect of some specific parent engagements. Using data from the Special Education Elementary Longi…
Distinguishing the Influences of Father’s and Mother’s Involvement on Adolescent Academic Achievement
Using a sample drawn from Taiwan, this study evaluated the role of mother and father involvement in adolescent academic achievement. The participants were drawn from the Taiwan Education Panel Survey (TEPS) and consisted of 8,108 adolescents who studied seventh grade in 2001. Father and mother involvement related to academic achievement was measured by four types of involvement: career plan discussion, listening to adolescent thinking, monitoring…
The Impact of Basic-Level Parent Engagements on Student Achievement
Strong empirical evidence exists in general education that links parent involvement to student academic achievement, but such evidence is lacking in special education. Moreover, most prior research investigated parent involvement as a broadly defined term that included various types of parent engagements. As a result, it is difficult to estimate the effect of some specific parent engagements. Using data from the Special Education Elementary Longi…
Distinguishing the Influences of Father’s and Mother’s Involvement on Adolescent Academic Achievement
Using a sample drawn from Taiwan, this study evaluated the role of mother and father involvement in adolescent academic achievement. The participants were drawn from the Taiwan Education Panel Survey (TEPS) and consisted of 8,108 adolescents who studied seventh grade in 2001. Father and mother involvement related to academic achievement was measured by four types of involvement: career plan discussion, listening to adolescent thinking, monitoring…
Distinguishing the Influences of Father’s and Mother’s Involvement on Adolescent Academic Achievement
Using a sample drawn from Taiwan, this study evaluated the role of mother and father involvement in adolescent academic achievement. The participants were drawn from the Taiwan Education Panel Survey (TEPS) and consisted of 8,108 adolescents who studied seventh grade in 2001. Father and mother involvement related to academic achievement was measured by four types of involvement: career plan discussion, listening to adolescent thinking, monitoring…
The Impact of Basic-Level Parent Engagements on Student Achievement
Strong empirical evidence exists in general education that links parent involvement to student academic achievement, but such evidence is lacking in special education. Moreover, most prior research investigated parent involvement as a broadly defined term that included various types of parent engagements. As a result, it is difficult to estimate the effect of some specific parent engagements. Using data from the Special Education Elementary Longi…
Detecting Misspecified Multilevel Structural Equation Models with Common Fit Indices
This study investigated the sensitivity of common fit indices (i.e., RMSEA, CFI, TLI, SRMR-W, and SRMR-B) for detecting misspecified multilevel SEMs. The design factors for the Monte Carlo study were numbers of groups in between-group models (100, 150, and 300), group size (10, 20, 30, and 60), intra-class correlation (low, medium, and high), and the types of model misspecification (Simple and Complex). The simulation results showed that CFI, TLI…
The Impact of Intraclass Correlation on the Effectiveness of Level-Specific Fit Indices in Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling
Several researchers have recommended that level-specific fit indices should be applied to detect the lack of model fit at any level in multilevel structural equation models. Although we concur with their view, we note that these studies did not sufficiently consider the impact of intraclass correlation (ICC) on the performance of level-specific fit indices. Our study proposed to fill this gap in the methodological literature. A Monte Carlo study …
A person-centred approach to understanding cultures of assessment
The purpose of the present study was to investigate how faculty members coalesce into distinguishable groups in terms of their perceived cultures of assessment at their respective institutions. To date, although researchers have posited the existence of various cultures of assessment, no study to our knowledge has empirically demonstrated the presence of these unobserved (latent) cultures analytically. Accordingly, a latent profile analysis was c…
Soft and hard variables in determining pre‐service teachers' intentions and decisions to pursue a special education career
This study examined the roles of hard variables and soft variables in determining college teachers' intentions to pursue a special education career and education majors' actual decisions to major in special education. This study surveyed 243 college students taking special education courses at a state university, including 213 education majors. The survey questions included four blocks of variables, pertaining to demographics, training and work e…
The Texas Kindergarten Entry Assessment
There is a significant need for kindergarten entry assessments (KEA) that meet state education agency (SEA) requirements and are psychometrically sound measures of a broad range of school readiness domains such as language, literacy, math, science, executive function, and social-emotional skills. Research Findings: In this paper, we describe five phases of development, calibration, and launch of a new KEA for a large state. We developed and teste…
Assessing Quality in Systematic Literature Reviews
This study investigated performance variability when graduate students critically appraised original studies from a systematic review. Fourteen doctoral students from different academic programs, with no systematic review experience, received training on the Methodological Quality Questionnaire (MQQ) rating scale. Participants were mostly male (71%) and non-native English speakers (79%). Each rater was randomly assigned one original study to inde…
Investigating the Impact of Covariate Inclusion on Sample Size Requirements of Factor Mixture Modeling
Factor mixture modeling (FMM) has been increasingly used in behavioral and social sciences to capture underlying population heterogeneity. This Monte Carlo simulation study investigated a common issue in applications of FMM, sample size requirements, particularly taking into account the impact of covariate inclusion. Results indicated that it was critical to include a proper covariate into FMM for accurate class enumeration and the required sampl…
A comparative analysis of instructional coaching approaches
Replication of combined school readiness interventions for teachers and parents of head start pre-kindergarteners using remote delivery
Thickening serious leisure
Gould et al.’s (2008) Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure (SLIM) and its short version were widely used to quantify dimensions of serious leisure for more than a decade. The purpose of this paper is to inform future research directions by reviewing studies employed SLIM to identify diverse SLIM practices and summarise present research findings. A total of 34 journal articles published in English between 2008 and 2019 were reviewed. Results reve…
STEM Magnet High Schools and Student Intent to Declare a STEM Major
This study employed design-based logistic regression to examine the extent to which attending a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) magnet high school, school demographics, and student-level factors explain a student’s intent to declare a STEM major in the first semester of college. The results show only student-level factors are statistically significantly associated with a student’s likelihood of intending to declare a STEM…
Beyond Learning Loss
The pandemic disrupted schools’ ability to provide students with essential academic and social-emotional resources. To date, research on pandemic-related learning loss has focused on standardized test scores and absenteeism, leaving the impact on student experiences underexplored. This study examines 6 years of student survey data to assess how student experience outcomes changed before, during, and after the pandemic. Using piecewise growth mode…
Caregiver experiences with special education in Massachusetts
Research suggests that schools face significant challenges when attempting to provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to students with disabilities and that their caregivers may be marginalised during IEP development, implementation and progress monitoring. This study investigated the special education experiences of Massachusetts caregivers. An electronic survey was developed through a comprehensive literature review and expert panel …
Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Statistics (5 works) · Applied Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Academic achievement (3 works)