Jia Wang
GSE&IS Building 307
300 North Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Education: Research Methodology
Research Interests
My research and creative work centers around implementation challenges to education reform in four areas: 1. School Choice: how the effectiveness and diversity of public education can be improved by offering additional alternative models; 2. Teacher Training and Support: how teacher performance can be improved by applying evidence-based capacity-building strategies; 3. Student Access: how student performance can be improved by providing students access to better schools, quality teachers and instruction, more challenging courses, and more learning opportunities outside of formal instruction time; and 4. Assessment Quality: how assessments can be improved by ensuring they are aligned with federal and state frameworks as well as education standards for assessment technical quality and validity.
Teaching
- ED200B: Survey Research Methods in Education
- 230A. Introduction to Research Design and Statistics
- 230B. Linear Statistical Models in Social Science Research: Multiple Regression Analysis
- 230C. Linear Statistical Models in Social Science Research: Analysis of Designed Experiment
Select Publications
- Wang, J., Herman, J., Haubner, J. (in press). Exploring the variation in magnet school success across 24 magnet schools. Magnet Schools: Public Schools of Choice in a Changing Education Landscape.
- Wang, J., Straubhaar, R., & Ong, C. (2020). Teacher and Administrator Experiences with Teacher Recruitment, Retention, and Support in a California Charter-Led Turnaround School. Inquiry in Education, 11: 2, Article 22. Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/ie/vol11/iss2/22
- Harju‐Luukkainen, H., Vettenranta, J., Wang, J, & Garvis, S. (2020). Family related variables effect on later educational outcome: a further geospatial analysis on TIMSS 2015 Finland. Large-scale Assess Educ, 8:3, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40536‐020‐00081‐2
- Harju-Luukkainen, H., Wang, J., La Torre, D. (2018). Using content analysis to compare a U.S. urban teacher residency to a Finnish teacher education program. The Urban Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-018-0475-8
