Di Xu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4043002 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Di Xu |
| SOBRENOME | Di Xu |
| ASSINATURA | DI XU |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5464-9858 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The relationship between moral distress and occupational burnout among ICU nurses
Background ICU nurses are prone to occupational burnout due to high workloads and emotional exhaustion. Moral distress exacerbates this issue, though the precise mechanisms remain unclear. Objective This study aims to examine the mediating role of social support and psychological resilience in the relationship between moral distress and occupational burnout among ICU nurses. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted from October to November …
A study on the relationship between work stress and turnover intentions among critical care nurses
Background Nursing staff shortages and the loss of nursing talent resources remain persistent global challenges. Work stress, job satisfaction, and occupational burnout are key factors influencing nursing staff turnover intentions. Examining the interrelationships among these four variables can provide deeper insights into turnover issues among critical care nurses. Objective To examine the relationship between work stress and turnover intention …
Online Student Performance Under Synchronous and Asynchronous Instruction in California Community Colleges
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in both an increased use of online courses in general and an increased the use of newer forms of online instruction like synchronous instruction. These changes create an urgent need for updated research on how students perform in these courses relative to face-to-face alternatives. Our paper uses data on student course enrollments in the California Community Colleges system from 2015–16 through 2021–22 to explore how…
Cross-course generalizability of SRL-aligned predictive models using digital learning traces
SRL-aligned digital trace indicators enable early prediction of exam risk in theory-intensive computer science courses. • Predictive models generalize only partially across courses and institutions, with substantial performance loss under base-rate shifts. • Elastic Net models generalize more robustly than high-performing ensemble methods despite lower in-sample accuracy. • Probability calibration improves the interpretability of predicted risk b…
Structural and Cultural Mechanisms of Childcaring Labor in China
This study critically examines how neoliberal market logic and Confucian ethics intertwine to shape motherhood roles in China, revealing the negotiation mechanisms of gendered childcaring responsibilities under structural constraints and cultural norms. Integrating Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence and Hewlett’s “mommy track,” we propose an intersectional perspective: the former explains how motherhood responsibilities are misrecognized as …
Sounding otherwise
Blind podcasters in China are reshaping digital participation through sound. Within an ecology structured by visual normativity, they mobilize podcasting not only as an accessible medium but as a site of sonic authorship, infrastructural negotiation, and sensory reconfiguration. Drawing on digital ethnography and interviews with 15 participants, this article examines how blind creators deploy embodied editing, metadata tactics, and para-infrastru…
How does physical distance from the epicenter influence misinformation sharing? The roles of negative affect and social media engagement
This study examines the relationship between physical distance from the epicenter and online misinformation sharing behavior, along with the underlying mechanisms involving emotions and social media usage. A cross-sectional survey of 1094 respondents in China during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic was conducted to construct a moderated mediation model, elucidating how geographic location influences public misinformation dissemination. T…
Resilience and professional identity among young healthcare workers in a Shanghai megahospital during Covid-19
Background: Public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic place immense psychological and professional pressure on healthcare workers, particularly those early in their careers. While much research has focused on burnout and stress, fewer studies have examined the role of professional identity and its organizational determinants among actively employed young healthcare professionals. Methods: This cross-sectional study surveyed 326 young hea…
Covid-19 in California Community Colleges
In Spring 2020, colleges across the nation swiftly transitioned their operations—including both classes and student support services—to remote delivery on an emergency basis in response to the crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. While prior research has documented that the transition was associated with decrements in student outcomes, there remains limited understanding of the organizational factors that might have mitigated these negative ass…
Does professional development for online instruction improve student course outcomes
Humanizing college online instruction
The rapid growth of online learning has raised concerns about quality and equity in virtual education. This study introduces the Humanizing Online STEM Academy, a six-week professional development program designed specifically to promote humanizing and inclusive teaching within STEM college online courses. We document in detail the Academy's design and instructional approach, and examine its impact on the perceptions and instructional practices o…
Unlocking success
City Walk as Platform-Native Counter-Mapping
As digital platforms increasingly structure how cities are navigated, seen, and valued, urban walking practices have become sites of both algorithmic capture and tactical improvisation. This study examines the emergence of City Walk (城市漫步) in China as a form of platform-native counter-mapping. This user-led spatial practice utilizes digital tools to document, reframe, and disseminate alternative urban narratives. Drawing on digital ethnography, p…
Social support and coping styles as mediators in the relationship between family resilience and post‐traumatic stress disorder among Chinese children during Covid ‐19 pandemic
During the COVID‐19 pandemic, the implementation of prolonged quarantine measures has rendered individuals, particularly children, vulnerable to various negative psychological effects, such as post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The current study aimed to examine the protective association of family resilience on PTSD over time, and to explore the potential mediating effects of social support and coping style. The sample of the current study c…
Relationship Between Trajectories of Perceived Discrimination and Socio-Cultural Adaptation Among Rural-to-Urban Migrant Children
Chinese rural-to-urban migrant children face a unique risk of perceived discrimination, which may threaten their mental health. However, little is known about the changing patterns of perceived discrimination in migrant children and its relationship to socio-cultural adaptation. This study used a three-wave longitudinal design with 3-month intervals to examine the trajectories of perceived discrimination in Chinese rural-to-urban migrant children…
STEM Faculty Professional Development
Higher education institutions commonly provide faculty professional development (PD) in teaching and learning, with the goal of enhancing student outcomes by improving instructional quality. Yet few existing studies link PD participation with student outcome measures. Empirical evidence on the impact of PD on student performance in higher education, particularly in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education is limited. Usi…
The Impact of Dual Enrollment on College Application Choice and Admission Success
Role of Individual and Network Factors in HIV Care Continuum Outcomes among PLWH
Understanding the complementary effect of bike-sharing on public transit
I Don’t Think the System Will Ever be the Same”
While the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the short-term use of online courses, colleges' experiences with COVID-era online course delivery may also affect the way that they offer and approach online courses going forward.We draw on interviews with 35 distance education leaders from the California Community Colleges system to provide insights into how the use of online education may change in the system going forward.Leaders predicted that post-pa…
An Exploration of the Relationship between the City and Residents
This paper argues that the public space plays an important role in enhancing the relationship between the city and its residents or potential residents in addition to providing living or working space and promoting physical and mental health. Thus, this new function shows the symbiotic relationship between the city’s development and residents’ own happiness. The case of Yongling also shows that public space construction is a dynamic process which…
Technology challenges among deaf and hard of hearing elders in China during Covid-19 pandemic emergency isolation
Digital technology can be an effective tool to facilitate emergency assistance in a pandemic, but many deaf and hard-of-hearing elders may experience challenges in using and adopting these technologies. In the context of the second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, this study employs a qualitative research method based on in-depth interviews to explore technology challenges among deaf and hard-of-hearing elders in China. The results showed that this…
The promise of using study-together groups to promote engagement and performance in online courses
College online courses have strong design in scaffolding but vary widely in supporting student agency and interactivity
Spatio-temporal variation of the relationship between air pollutants and land surface temperature in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China
Performance Gaps between Online and Face-to-Face Courses
Using a dataset containing nearly 500, 000 courses taken by over 40, 000 community and technical college students in Washington State, this study examines the performance gap between online and face-to-face courses and how the size of that gap differs across student subgroups and academic subject areas. While all types of students in the study suffered decrements in performance in online courses, those with the strongest declines were males, youn…
Philosophy of Education in a New Key
Ruyu HungNational Chiayi University, TaiwanThis is a collective writing experiment of PESA members, orchestrating the Philosophy of Education in a New Key regarding East Asia. In 2016 the pioneerin
Spatial and hedonic analysis of housing prices in Shanghai
Changing urban green spaces in Shanghai
College Acceleration for All? Mapping Racial Gaps in Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment Participation
This article documents the patterns of White-Black and White-Hispanic enrollment gaps in Advanced Placement (AP) and Dual Enrollment (DE) programs across thousands of school districts in the United States by merging several data sources. We show that the vast majority of districts have racial enrollment gaps in both programs, with wider gaps in AP than DE. Results from fractional regression models indicate that geographic variations in these gaps…
Red-Envelope Cash
This project examines the practice of taking red-envelope cash in contemporary Chinese journalism, which involves journalists accepting cash wrapped in an envelope that is provided by sources or other social agents. On the basis of focus group interviews, in-depth interviews, and personal communication, this project brings journalists’ perceptions on this practice to the fore. Journalists predominantly attribute the practice to Chinese cultural f…
Are Community College Transfer Students “a Good Bet” for 4-Year Admissions? Comparing Academic and Labor-Market Outcomes Between Transfer and Native 4-Year College Students
Using detailed administrative data from Virginia, this paper examines whether community college “vertical transfer” students who resemble “native four-year” students in their accumulated college-level credits and performance at their point of entry into the four-year sector perform equally well in terms of both academic and labor market outcomes. We compare matching strategies typically used in existing literature to one where we match vertical t…
Academic Performance in Community Colleges
Understanding the relative impacts of part-time adjuncts in community colleges is highly policy-relevant, partly because community colleges rely on part-time faculty heavily and partly because community colleges assume a critical role in addressing the national equity agenda by disproportionately serving underrepresented groups. This study uses individual transcript data to explore how initial exposure to a particular field of study with part-tim…
The effects of preschool attendance on adolescent outcomes in rural China
Assistance or Obstacle? The Impact of Different Levels of English Developmental Education on Underprepared Students in Community Colleges
Developmental education is the most common approach used by community colleges to assist underprepared students for college-level course work. Yet there is limited evidence regarding this strategy on students assigned to the lowest level of the developmental sequence. This paper extends current knowledge on this critical question by examining the impacts of different levels of developmental reading and writing on students’ academic outcomes. The …
I Don’t Think the System Will Ever be the Same”
While the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the short-term use of online courses, colleges' experiences with COVID-era online course delivery may also affect the way that they offer and approach online courses going forward.We draw on interviews with 35 distance education leaders from the California Community Colleges system to provide insights into how the use of online education may change in the system going forward.Leaders predicted that post-pa…
The contribution of Fintech to sustainable development in the digital age
Understanding the complementary effect of bike-sharing on public transit
When Expectation Isn’t Reality
Existing research indicates that underrepresented-in-STEM racially minoritized students with similar academic preparation are less likely than their counterparts to persist in STEM, raising the question of factors that may contribute to racial disparities in STEM participation beyond academic preparation. We extend the current literature by first examining race-based differences in what students expect to receive and their actual grades in introd…
Happy Together? The Peer Effects of Dual Enrollment Students on Community College Student Outcomes
Nationally, 15% of first-time community college students were high school dual enrollment (DE) students, which raises concerns about how high school peers might influence college enrollees. Using administrative data from a large state community college system, we examine whether being exposed to a higher percentage of DE peers in entry-level (gateway) math and English courses influences non-DE enrollees’ performance. Using a two-way fixed effects…
Easeing Students Into College
Extensive theoretical literature and qualitative evidence nominate learning communities as a promising strategy to improve persistence and success among at-risk populations, such as students who are academically underprepared for college-level coursework. Yet rigorous quantitative evidence on the impacts of these programs is limited. This paper estimates the causal effects of a first-year STEM learning communities program on both cognitive and no…
The philosophical consciousness of the interconnected universe
The philosophical consciousness of the interconnected universe." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(14), pp. 1376–1377
Looking Beyond Academic Performance
Recruiting more female faculty has been suggested as a policy option for addressing gender disparities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields given its ability to engage female students through a role model effect. While a small but growing body of literature has examined the role of instructor gender at the higher education level, it typically focuses only on academic outcomes. This paper utilizes a unique data set th…
Does Developmental Education Improve Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence From Two States
Many community college students start college in developmental education and leave before enrolling in college-level coursework or making much progress toward a degree; thus, developmental education courses represent the primary education these students receive. Using student-unit record data from two large community college systems linked to wage record data, this is the first study to estimate the labor market returns to developmental education…
Online Censorship and Journalists' Tactics
This paper explores the dynamics between journalistic practices and the mechanisms of internet control in the Chinese context. Principally drawing on interviews and focus group discussions with journalists, this paper investigates in detail the key tactics employed by journalists to counter online censorship, which include: journalists working undercover; the use of “transformed words” or alternatives to “sensitive” words to evade blocking filter…
Online Censorship and Journalists' Tactics
This paper explores the dynamics between journalistic practices and the mechanisms of internet control in the Chinese context. Principally drawing on interviews and focus group discussions with journalists, this paper investigates in detail the key tactics employed by journalists to counter online censorship, which include: journalists working undercover; the use of “transformed words” or alternatives to “sensitive” words to evade blocking filter…
Performance Gaps between Online and Face-to-Face Courses
Using a dataset containing nearly 500, 000 courses taken by over 40, 000 community and technical college students in Washington State, this study examines the performance gap between online and face-to-face courses and how the size of that gap differs across student subgroups and academic subject areas. While all types of students in the study suffered decrements in performance in online courses, those with the strongest declines were males, youn…
How do online course design features influence student performance?
Surface wind observations affected by agricultural development over Northwest China
Meteorological stations in Northwest China are surrounded by large proportions of cultivated land. The relations between the change of surface wind speed and the cultivated land fractions (CF) within a 4 km radius at 135 meteorological stations over arid Northwest China are investigated. Stations with larger CF experienced larger declines in surface wind speed from 1960 to 2007. Compared with the wind speed variation in the Tibetan Plateau where …
The effects of preschool attendance on adolescent outcomes in rural China
Assistance or Obstacle? The Impact of Different Levels of English Developmental Education on Underprepared Students in Community Colleges
Developmental education is the most common approach used by community colleges to assist underprepared students for college-level course work. Yet there is limited evidence regarding this strategy on students assigned to the lowest level of the developmental sequence. This paper extends current knowledge on this critical question by examining the impacts of different levels of developmental reading and writing on students’ academic outcomes. The …
Educational philosophy – East, West, and beyond
This article analyzes Xueji (學記) and discusses some of the myths and facts in Western perceptions of Chinese educational practice. It also looks at the similarities and contrasts between Eastern and Western conceptions of teaching and learning. A careful study of Xueji (學記) will help in understanding some common Western misunderstandings and misperceptions of Chinese pedagogic practices, in particular, the views that Chinese educational practices…
Does Developmental Education Improve Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence From Two States
Many community college students start college in developmental education and leave before enrolling in college-level coursework or making much progress toward a degree; thus, developmental education courses represent the primary education these students receive. Using student-unit record data from two large community college systems linked to wage record data, this is the first study to estimate the labor market returns to developmental education…
Red-Envelope Cash
This project examines the practice of taking red-envelope cash in contemporary Chinese journalism, which involves journalists accepting cash wrapped in an envelope that is provided by sources or other social agents. On the basis of focus group interviews, in-depth interviews, and personal communication, this project brings journalists’ perceptions on this practice to the fore. Journalists predominantly attribute the practice to Chinese cultural f…
Understanding the determinants of online review helpfulness
Comparison of urban heat island and urban reflection in Nanjing City of China
The night light development and public health in China
Spatial and hedonic analysis of housing prices in Shanghai
Easeing Students Into College
Extensive theoretical literature and qualitative evidence nominate learning communities as a promising strategy to improve persistence and success among at-risk populations, such as students who are academically underprepared for college-level coursework. Yet rigorous quantitative evidence on the impacts of these programs is limited. This paper estimates the causal effects of a first-year STEM learning communities program on both cognitive and no…
Are Community College Transfer Students “a Good Bet” for 4-Year Admissions? Comparing Academic and Labor-Market Outcomes Between Transfer and Native 4-Year College Students
Using detailed administrative data from Virginia, this paper examines whether community college “vertical transfer” students who resemble “native four-year” students in their accumulated college-level credits and performance at their point of entry into the four-year sector perform equally well in terms of both academic and labor market outcomes. We compare matching strategies typically used in existing literature to one where we match vertical t…
The philosophical consciousness of the interconnected universe
The philosophical consciousness of the interconnected universe." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(14), pp. 1376–1377
Looking Beyond Academic Performance
Recruiting more female faculty has been suggested as a policy option for addressing gender disparities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields given its ability to engage female students through a role model effect. While a small but growing body of literature has examined the role of instructor gender at the higher education level, it typically focuses only on academic outcomes. This paper utilizes a unique data set th…
Changing urban green spaces in Shanghai
Ruyu Hung. Education between speech and writing
This book review symposium aims to open a space for discussions and questions responded to the book Education between Speech and Writing: Crossing the Boundaries of Dao and Deconstruction, which is published in 2018. The symposium is composed of four articles by four authors. They are “Introduction” by the author of the book; Morimichi Kato's “Writing, History, and Playfulness: A dialogical review of Ruyu Hung's Education Between Speech and Writi…
Academic Performance in Community Colleges
Understanding the relative impacts of part-time adjuncts in community colleges is highly policy-relevant, partly because community colleges rely on part-time faculty heavily and partly because community colleges assume a critical role in addressing the national equity agenda by disproportionately serving underrepresented groups. This study uses individual transcript data to explore how initial exposure to a particular field of study with part-tim…
Effects of course modality in summer session
The Impacts of Different Types of College Instructors on Students’ Academic and Labor Market Outcomes
Based on a novel data set that links college administrative information with earnings records from a state college system for both public two‐year and four‐year colleges, this study quantifies the impacts of exposure to different types of instructors during students’ initial semester in college on their subsequent academic and labor market outcomes. To minimize bias from student sorting by type of instructor, we combine course‐set fixed effects w…
Understanding consciousness for optimal human wellbeing & growth holistically
Consciousness is a natural and integral part of human beings that is at the core of our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual functions throughout our lives. However, we tend to be too occupied with or distracted by the details of our daily existence to be fully aware of our own consciousness. More often than not, we are engaged in the surface consciousness in the materialistic world or emotional realm, which interferes us to get connected w…
Philosophy of Education in a New Key
Ruyu HungNational Chiayi University, TaiwanThis is a collective writing experiment of PESA members, orchestrating the Philosophy of Education in a New Key regarding East Asia. In 2016 the pioneerin
External Communication Barriers among Elderly Deaf and Hard of Hearing People in China during the Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency Isolation
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a great risk to older people with hearing impairment, who face a higher threshold of external communication after the implementation of the emergency isolation policy. As part of a study on the optimization of external communication among the deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) population in central China, this study employed a qualitative research method based on in-depth interviews to explore the needs and difficulties fa…
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