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| Primary Activity Coordinators: |
Data Coordinator |
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| Discipline Coordinators: |
Education Psychology: Developmental |
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| Project/Program/Clinic Contacts: | Hawaii Family Engagement Center | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline(s): |
Disability Studies Education: General Human Development/Child Development Psychology Education/Special Education |
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| AUCD Council Membership: |
No Council Membership |
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| Research: | Effective school-family partnership in promoting academic achievement and positive student development. The population I'm interested in are communities with key characteristics -- low SES status, disabilities, Native Hawaiian, immigrants who speak English as second language, etc. Second research interest is cultural competency in program evaluation. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Education: | Positive psychology and its applications in living a more meaningful life. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Service: | Self-advocy for immigrant communities. | ||||||||||||||||||
Vita/Bio
Education
University of Hawaii at Manoa Social/Personality Psychology Ph.D. 2004
University of Hawaii at Manoa Developmental Psychology M.A. 1998
Beijing Normal University (Beijing, P.R.China) Psychology B.S. 1990
Dr. Chuan Chang is an Associate Specialist with the Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawaii. As a program evaluator for a variety of community-based Creating Futures projects, her current work is on implementation and evaluation of supplemental literacy and math development programs for at-risk Hawaiian children and youth. Her research interests focus on positive youth development and intervention, and cultural competence issues in program evaluation. She has strong quantitative research skills and has done external and internal program evaluation for several federal and state funded projects using mixed methods, including NSF RDE STEM project and community-based literacy development projects.
