Vi-Nhuan Le

Vi-Nhuan Le is a principal research scientist in the Education and Child Development department with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. She applies advanced quantitative methods to program evaluations, with expertise in mathematics and science reform, educational assessment, postsecondary access and persistence, and early childhood education. Her research has examined the effects of preschool tuition credits on student achievement, the impact of merit pay on mathematics teachers’ attitudes and instructional practices, and the relationship between college readiness programs and student outcomes. She specializes in analyzing large-scale datasets using advanced statistical approaches, including meta-analysis, propensity weighting, and regression discontinuity designs. Her work has been published in American Educational Research Journal, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and other leading academic journals. Le earned her MS in statistics and PhD in psychometrics from Stanford University.

updated 2025