Caroline Wang

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Caroline Wang
Research Scientist,
Education Analytics

Caroline Wang is a research scientist at Education Analytics. She previously worked as a researcher and assessment specialist with the Value-Added Research Center in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research Center (WCER) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was a research associate at the Education Development Center and a research assistant at Boston College, contributing to projects at the Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy and City Connects. She also worked as an assistant manager and testing specialist at the Personnel Testing Authorities in China. Wang earned her BA in teaching Chinese as a second language and an MEd in language testing from Beijing Language and Culture University, and a PhD in educational research, measurement, and evaluation from Boston College.

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Contributing topics
Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
CORE-PACE Research Partnership
COVID-19 Recovery
Caroline Wang in the Media
: Evidence-Based Practices for Assessing Students' Social and Emotional Well-Being
: 4 New Evidence Briefs to Help Students During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
: Measuring Students’ Social-Emotional Learning Among California’s CORE Districts: An IRT Modeling Approach
Publications by Caroline Wang
Measuring SEL May 2018
Measuring Students’ Social-Emotional Learning Among California’s CORE Districts
An IRT Modeling Approach
This study examines the properties of California's CORE Districts' SEL survey, which measures social-emotional learning in students. The survey was given to over 400,000 students in grades 3-12. The study uses both classical test theory and item…