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Qiyun Wang

Department of Special Education, The University of Texas at Austin

qw3633@eid.utexas.edu

Education

Ph.D. Student in Learning Disabilities & Behavioral Disorders
Aug 2025 – Present
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
M.A. in Special and Inclusive Education (Graduated with Distinction)
2024
University College London
London, UK
M.Ed. in Teaching (Chinese)
2021
East China Normal University
Shanghai, China
B.Ed. in Special Education
2017
East China Normal University
Shanghai, China

Experience

Chinese Teacher
July 2017 – June 2023
Maqiao Wenlai Foreign Language Primary School
Shanghai, China
  • Cultivated the study habits and attitudes of lower-grade students.
  • Spearheaded cultural immersion initiatives through calligraphy and scientific literature integrations.
Research Assistant
July 2024 – May 2025
1,000-school Inclusive Education Alliance Project
Shanghai, China
  • Provide training and support to educators in promoting inclusive teaching practices for students with diverse learning needs.
  • Collect data and analyze the effectiveness of inclusive education interventions in Shanghai primary schools.
AP Psychology Teacher
July 2024 – Aug 2025
Landwave Education Consulting
Shanghai, China
  • Directed a College Board-aligned AP Psychology curriculum, integrating cognitive frameworks to maximize student retention and outcomes.
  • Engineered formative assessments utilizing psychometric item analysis to track knowledge acquisition and iteratively refine instructional modules.

Projects

First-Author Researcher: Cognitive and Affective-Motivational Predictors of Geometry Performance
Feb 2025 – Present
Austin, TX
  • Conducted multivariate regression modeling on psychometric data from 142 students to evaluate cognitive and affective predictors of mathematics achievement.
  • Presented first-author poster at the 34th Annual Pacific Coast Research Conference (PCRC), demonstrating that self-efficacy significantly outperforms working memory in predicting geometry performance.
Graduate Research Assistant: NSF Project AIM: Network Meta-Analysis of Mathematics Instruction
Feb 2025 – Present
Austin, TX
  • Systematically extracted and coded data from rigorous experimental designs for an NSF-funded network meta-analysis (Award #2405797) evaluating PreK-12 mathematics interventions.
  • Categorized complex instructional strategies and affective components (e.g., mathematics anxiety, motivation) to facilitate moderation analyses and component model estimations.
Sole Investigator: Auto-Mobile: The Mini Cooper as Method amid "Driving While Alien"
Dec 2025
Austin, TX
  • Execute an independent autoethnographic study exploring spatiality and identity, utilizing vehicular mobility as a framework to deconstruct social marginalization.
  • Select to present at the EASA2026 Lightning Panel "Patchwork Ethnography" (July 2026, Poland), contributing a novel mobile methodology.
Co-Investigator: Longitudinal Meta-Analysis of Parental Expectations & Academic Achievement
Mar 2026 – Present
Austin, TX
  • Co-lead the systematic extraction and harmonization of cross-lagged panel data, standardizing heterogeneous psychometric measures.
  • Engineer longitudinal datasets (T1-T3) from global empirical studies to support advanced structural equation modeling on intergenerational educational effects.
Graduate Research Assistant: Longitudinal Meta-Analysis of Mathematics and Reading Relations
Mar 2026 – Present
Austin, TX
  • Execute rigorous literature screening and complex data extraction, coding cross-lagged correlations from longitudinal studies.
  • Facilitate meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) and moderation analyses to map cognitive developmental trajectories across diverse educational contexts.