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Xin Wei

Research Analyst III

Xin Wei, Ph.D., has extensive experience conducting research in education accountability policy, experimental design, and psychometrics. Dr. Wei works on multidisciplinary projects that involve staff from several centers in the Policy Division. In the Center for Education and Human Services, she currently is a reviewer for the What Works Clearinghouse, a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. For this project, Dr. Wei is using her knowledge of experimental design and statistical modeling to evaluate various educational intervention studies. She also is applying growth modeling techniques to estimate children's growth trajectory by using national longitudinal datasets.

Dr. Wei is involved with a study in the Center for Education Policy, the Texas High School Project, in which she is examining the effectiveness of various high school reform initiatives on improving student achievement.

Before joining SRI, Dr. Wei designed cluster randomized experiments and quasi-experiments for education program evaluations, analyzed data from those studies using SAS and HLM, and reported on their results. She also has experience equating test scores for a state high-stakes test. She was a statistical consultant for the Social Science Data Services at Stanford University, where she gave workshops, provided consultation, and wrote documentation on the use of quantitative and qualitative statistical software. Her dissertation, funded by the American Educational Research Association, used HLM and regression discontinuity approaches to investigate whether the NCLB accountability policy is associated with improved student academic achievement and narrowing achievement gaps.

Dr. Wei received her Ph.D. in education and an M.S. degree in statistics from Stanford University, where she was a recipient of the prestigious Stanford Graduate Fellowship. She also holds an M.S. degree in human development from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A. degree in child development from Nanjing Normal University in China.