Yi-Jung Wu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan. National Kaohsiung Normal University is a leading public institution in Taiwan dedicated to secondary teacher education. Since it was founded in 1954, its graduates have taught in public schools throughout Taiwan, nurturing countless outstanding secondary school teachers, school leaders, and principals.
Dr. Wu earned her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a doctoral minor in Educational Psychology. She completed her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Carolyn Kelley. During her doctoral studies, she was an international affiliate of the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences and a graduate research fellow at the Institute for Research on Poverty.
Educational Administration and Leadership, School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Comparative and International Education, Teacher Education, Sociology of Education, Rural and Remote Education, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Education, Social and Gender Inequality in Higher Education and the Workplace, Education and Social Mobility, Career Development, Well-being, Adolescent Psychology, Educational Psychology, Digital Learning, Learning Sciences, Mixed Methods Research, and Institutional Research
She has published in peer-reviewed international and Taiwanese academic journals, as well as book chapters. Her work has appeared in Asia Pacific Education Review, Journal of Career Development, Education and Information Technologies, Emotion, The Magazine of Higher Learning, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, and Sustainability. She also contributed a book chapter to International Students at US Community Colleges: Opportunities, Challenges, and Successes. In Taiwan, her research has been published in Taiwanese peer-reviewed academic journals, including Educational Policy Forum, Journal of Education & Psychology, Curriculum & Instruction Quarterly, and Journal of Education Research. In addition, she has published articles in Taiwanese professional education magazines, including Taiwan Education and Taiwan Educational Review Monthly.
Government Scholarship to Study Abroad, Taiwan Ministry of Education
Isadore Newman Dissertation Award, Mid-Western Educational Research Association
Junior Scholar Fellowship, International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement
Emerging Scholar Award, E-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies
Professor Huang Kuang-Kuo National Chair Professor Dissertation Scholarship, Chinese Association for Indigenous Social Sciences
Professor Liao Shu-tsung Research Award, North American Taiwanese Professors' Association