Wen-Juo Lo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Educational Statistics and Research Methods
Curriculum and Instruction
247 Graduate Education Building
Phone: 479-575-6321
FAX: 479-575-2492
wlo@uark.edu
Degrees:
Ph.D., Arizona State University, Educational Psychology-Measurement, Statistics, and Methodological Studies, 2008
M.A., Arizona State University, Educational Psychology-Measurement, Statistics, and Methodological Studies, 2004
B.S., SooChow University (Taiwan), Psychology, 1993
Teaching Areas:
Educational Statistics and Data Process
Experimental Design
Advanced Experimental Design
Research Interests:
Statistical and applied problems in structural equation modeling (SEM)
Measurement invariance across multiple populations
Retention in higher education
Publications/Presentations:
Publications
Thompson, M. S., Green, S. B., Chen, Y.-H., Stockford, S., & Lo, W. J. (2005). A note on power of the t test for normal and mixed normal distributions. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 4(2), 591-597.
Shu, B. C., Lo, W. J., & Lung, F. W. (1999). The reliability and validity of a Chinese version of the Parental Bonding Instrument. The Journal of Nursing Research. 7(5), 479-489.
Presentations
Lo, W. J., & Thompson, M. S. (April, 2007). A Study of freshmen persistence using components of Tinto's Model. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Lo, W. J., & Thompson, M. S. (April, 2006). The Parental Bonding Instrument: Alternative models comparison and testing of factorial invariance between gender. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, California.
Yu, C. H., DiGangi, A, Jannasch-Pennell, A., Kim, C., Stay, V., Lo, W. J., & Long, L. (August, 2006). Interactive animation for learning Item Response Theory and misfit identification in Item Response Theory. Presented at the annual Joint Statistical Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Seattle, Washington.
Yu, C. H., Jannasch-Pennell, A., Stay, V., DiGangi, S., Kim, C., Long L., Lo, W. J., Kilic, Z., Kang, S., & Freeman, R. (2006). Multi-sensory cognitive learning as facilitated in a FLASH tutorial for Item Response Theory. Presented at International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications, Orlando, Florida.
Thompson, M. S. & Lo, W. J. (April, 2005). Assessing partial invariance with forward and backward search methods. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.
Yang, Y. Y., Argo, A., Lo, W. J., Chen, Y. H., Gorin, G., Green, S. B., and Thompson, M. S. (April, 2005). Item analysis methods for emergent factors: A case study of a stress scale. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.
Chen, Y. H., Lo, W. J., & Yang, Y. (October, 2004). Exploring the effects of teacher characteristics on students' attitude and mathematics achievements: Application of HLM to Taiwan data from TIMSS-1999. Presented at the annual meeting of the Arizona Educational Research Organization, Tempe, Arizona.
Lo, W. J., & Thompson, M. S. (April, 2003). The Parental Bonding Instrument: A confirmatory factor analytic comparison of alternative models in a Taiwanese sample. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Chen, Y. H., Lo, W. J., & Yang, Y. Y. (October, 2003). Analyzing data from complex large-scale samples. Presented at the annual meeting of the Arizona Educational Research Organization, Tempe, Arizona.
Thompson, M. S., Green, S. B., Stockford, S. M., Chen, Y. H., & Lo, W. J. (April, 2002). The .05 Level: The probability that the independent-samples t test should be applied? Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Thompson, M. S., Green, S. B., Stockford, S. M., Chen, Y. H., & Lo, W. J. (April, 2002). Applying newer parametric approaches to old parametric problems: Trimmed means, bootstrapping, and dominance statistics. Presented as an Educational Psychology brownbag seminar and as a Psychology Department Quantitative Series seminar.
Lo, W. J., Yu, C. H., & Stockford, S. (March, 2002). Implementation of flash Simulation for interactive instructional modules. Presented at the 21th Annual Microcomputer in Education Conference, Tempe, Arizona.
Stockford, S., Lo, W. J., Chen, Y. H., Thompson, M. S., Green, S. B., & Yu, C. H. (October, 2001). Confronting the statistical assumptions: New alternatives for comparing groups. Presented at the annual meeting of the Arizona Educational Research Organization, Tempe, Arizona.
Yu, C. H., Lo, W. J., & Stockford, S. (August, 2001). Using multimedia to visualize the concepts of degrees of freedom in terms of sample size and dimensionality. Presented at the annual Joint Statistical Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Atlanta, Georgia.