CHANG Lei, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Educational Psychology
BA (Hebei University), MS, PhD(University of Southern California)
Tel: 2609-6936      E-mail: leichang@cuhk.edu.hk
 
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With 5 books and 70 refereed journal publications, Professor Chang conducts research in the areas of child social development and applied psychometrics. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Behavioral Development (USA), Associate Editor of the Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies (HK), and Chief Editor of the Social science research methodology book series (China). He also serves on the editorial board of Educational and Psychological Measurement (USA), Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (Britain), and Acta Psychologica Sinica (China). With 19 years of university teaching, 10 of which at CUHK, Professor Chang currently teaches research methods, adolescent development, and evolutionary psychology courses. His academic service also extends to Mainland China, where he is a frequent speaker and a guest professor in over a dozen universities. In Hong Kong, he serves as an external examiner at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and on advisory committees at the Hong Kong Examination and Assessment Authority. Internationally, he has participated in and led several research projects and was a keynote speaker at the 19th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development.

Child Social Development:

  1. Chang, L., Lei., L., Li, K.K., Guo, B ., Liu, H., Wang, Y., & Fung , K.Y. (2005). Peer acceptance and self-perceptions of verbal and behavioral aggression and social withdrawal. International Journal of B ehavioral Development , 29, 48-57.

  2. Chang, L. (2004). The role of classrooms in contextualizing the relations of children’s social behaviors to peer acceptance. Developmental Psychology, 40, 691 -702.

  3. Chang, L., Liu, H., Wen, Z., Fung , K.Y., Wang, Y., & Xu, Y. (2004). Mediating teaching liking and moderating authoritative teachering on Chinese students’ perceptions of antisocial and prosocial behaviors. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96, 369-380.

  4. Chang, L. (2003). Variable effects of children’s aggression, social withdrawal, and prosocial leadership as functions of teacher beliefs and behaviors. Child Development, 74, 535-548.

  5. Chang, L., Schwartz, D., Dodge, K., & Mc B ride-Chang, C. (2003). Harsh parenting in relation to child emotion regulation and aggression. Journal of Family Psychology, 17 , 598-606.

Applied Psychometrics:

  1. Chang, L., van der Linden, W., & Vos, H. (2004). Setting standards and detecting intrajudge inconsistency using interdependent evaluation of response alternatives. Educational and Psychological Measurement 40, 781-801.

  2. Chang, L., & Hocevar, D. (2000). Models of generalizability theory in analyzing existing faculty evaluation data. Applied Measurement in Education, 13 , 255-275.

  3. Chang, L. ( 1999). Judgmental item analysis of the Nedelsky and Angoff standard-setting methods. Applied Measurement in Education, 12 , 151 - 165.

  4. Chang, L., Dziuban, C., Hynes, M. & Olson, A.H. ( 1996). Does a standard reflect minimal competency of examinees or judge competency? Applied Measurement in Education, 9, 161 - 173.

  5. Chang, L. ( 1994). A psychometric evaluation of 4- and 6-point scales in relation to reliability and validity. Applied Psychological Measurement, 18 , 205-215.


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