Wei-Lin Chen Email & Phone Number

Taiwan

Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

• Lead research projects with applications of advanced data-management skills and statistical methods• Evaluate statewide policy and degree attainment in higher education • Propose evidence-based solutions to decision-makers at local and state levels to reduce racial disparity in college access, college progression, and college success • Evaluate and compare effectiveness of Maryland’s higher education programs to other states• Develop new metrics to evaluate statewide programs and student success in postsecondary education

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Developed data review plans for public-use data files, reviewed restricted-use data, and produced technical and statistical reports for American College President Study • Conducted postsecondary education research projects using NCES longitudinal datasets, including Baccalaureate and Beyond (B&B), Postsecondary Education Transcript Collections (PETS), BPS, ELS:2002, and NPSAS • Presented findings and solutions to clients and decision-makers at state and national levels, as well as private organizations • Managed multiple projects simultaneously, and streamlined key project operations, including data collection, cleaning, validation, and documentation

• Collected data from students who participated in UI REACH (an intervention that aimed to help college students with disabilities), identified students’ learning experiences on college success, and produced technical reports • Developed research plans and strategies to evaluate impact of UI REACH on college student outcomes, and identified institutional activities to improve student outcomes • Conducted research projects on identifying barriers for expanding higher education access and success for underserved students, with using National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) longitudinal datasets

• Led study designs and implementations of numerous large-scale longitudinal surveys on academic performance among high school students and college students• Managed budget and supervised data collection process• Produced public-use data files from restricted-use datasets, produced and reviewed technical and statistical reports, developed user’s manuals and codebooks, and delivered products that met the data needs of The Department of Education in Taiwan • Prepared and Reviewed research reports, survey instruments, technical reports, and research reports

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Sociology Of Education, Higher Education

Dissertation: Understanding student success gap: Academic innovations for improving underrepresented racial minority and non-traditional.

Master'S Degree, Sociology Of Educaiton

In my Masters program, I worked for The Center for Educational Research and Evaluation, which is funded by the Taiwanese Ministry.