Chia-Lin Tsai, Ph.D.

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Education

• Ph.D., Educational Psychology – Statistics & Measurement, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 2012
• M.A., Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
• M.A., School Counseling, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
• B.A., Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Professional/Academic Experience

• Senior/ Research Data Analyst, Assessment Resource Center, University of Missouri, 2015-2017
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology, University of Missouri, 2015-2017
• Research Specialist/Project Coordinator, Alcohol Cognitions Lab, Department of Psychological Science, University of Missouri, 2012-2015
• Summer Research Intern, Research, Assessment and Accountability Office of Columbia Public School, Columbia MO, 2009

Research/Areas of Interest

Psychometric studies, Large-scale assessment in education, Latent variable modeling

Publications/Creative Works

• Tsai, C.-L., Wind, S., & Estrada, S. (2024). Exploring the Effects of Collapsing Rating Scale Categories in Polytomous Item Response Theory Analyses: An Illustration and Simulation Study. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 10.1080/15366367.2023.2288791 
• Fan, C.-H., Tsai, C.-L., Juang, Y.-T., Wang, H.-T., & Chang, Y.-L. (2024). Cross-cultural examination of school educators' beliefs about principles of positive behavior support. Psychology in the Schools, 61, 287–303. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.2305 
• Fan, C., Tsai, C-L., Zhang, Y., & Yang, N. (2023) An Exploration of Staff’s Beliefs about School-Wide Positive Behavior Support: Factor Examination Using the Beliefs about Behavior Survey, Journal of Applied School Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/15377903.2023.2290726 
• Jones, E. A., Wind, S. A., Tsai, C. L., & Ge, Y. (2023). Comparing person-fit and traditional indices across careless response patterns in surveys. Applied Psychological Measurement, 47(5-6), 365-385
• Murakami, C., Seidel, M., Tsai, C.-L., & Pope, J. (2023). COVID-19 and Pennsylvania farmers: Financial impacts, relief programs, and resiliency strategies during the 2020 growing season. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 12(3), 1–32. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2023.123.016
• Tsai, C.-L., Estrada, S., Flores, L. Y., & Brown, C. (2023). Motivation, College Integration, and Intentions to Persist Among First-Generation College Students: A Latent Class Approach. Journal of Career Development, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/08948453231157757
• Tian, L., Tsai, C. L., Khalsa, G., Condie, M., Kopystynsky, N., Ohde, K., & Zhao, A. (2023). A PROACTIVE Coping Scale for US College Students: Initial Evidence and Implications. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 07342829221151005.
• Tsai, C. L., Bergin, C., & Jones, E. (2022). Students in 4th to 12th grade can distinguish dimensions of teaching when evaluating their teachers: a multilevel analysis of the TESS survey. Educational Studies, 1-16.
• Seidel, M., Murakami, C. ., Egan, J., Pope, J., & Tsai, C.-L.(2021). Impact of COVID-19 on Pennsylvania farm revenue: Looking back at the 2020 season. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 11(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2021.111.015
• Casey, K., Tsai, C.L., & Fink, R. (2021) A Psychometric Evaluation of the Casey-Fink Graduate Nurse Experience Survey. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 51 (5), 242-248.
• Tsai, C. L., Ku, H. Y., & Campbell, A. (2021). Impacts of course activities on student perceptions of engagement and learning online. Distance Education, 1-20.
• Tsai, C., Cho, M., Marra, R., & Shen, D. (2020) The Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Online Learning (SeQoL), Distance Education, DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2020.1821604
• Tsai, C.-L., Brown, A., Lehrman, A., & Tian, L. (2020). Motivation and Postsecondary Enrollment Among High School Students Whose Parents Did Not Go to College. Journal of Career Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894845320946397 
• Liss, D. J., Kerl, M. E., & Tsai, C. L. (2020). Factors associated with job satisfaction and engagement among credentialed small animal veterinary technicians in the United States. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 257(5), 537-545.
• Tsai, C. & Ku, H. Y. (2020). Does teacher quality mean the same thing across teacher candidates, cooperating teachers, and university supervisors? Educational Studies, 1-18.

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