Excited to share that I earned my M.Ed. in Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment from the University of Illinois Chicago in May 2026!

I am deeply grateful to my advisor, teachers, mentors, college staff, collaborators, colleagues, friends, classmates, and family for their support throughout this journey. This experience further strengthened my interests in educational measurement, statistics, and AI in education research.

I’m happy to share that I successfully passed my dissertation proposal defense!

My research focuses on measuring and improving science teachers’ generative AI literacy for classroom assessment, and I’m excited to move forward to the next stage of my dissertation.

Grateful for the support and guidance from my advisor and committee throughout this process!

Thank my coauthors, other researchers, teachers, and staff members for providing ideas, resources, encouragement, and support! Names are listed in alphabetical order.

Rosie Beechen

Ting Dai

Raquel Jardon

Fei Lang

Steven McGee

Davy Tsz Kit Ng

Jeremy Riel

Nic Weststrate

Elise Wilson

Yue Yin

Xiaoming Zhai

Na Zhou

Excited to share that I earned my M.S. in Statistics from the University of Illinois Chicago in December 2025!

Grateful for the support from my advisors, teachers, friends, and family throughout this journey!

I am excited to share my first publication as first author:

Huang, R., Yin, Y., Zhou, N., & Lang, F. (2026). Artificial intelligence in K-12 education: An umbrella review. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 100519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2025.100519

Highlights

• We proposed a framework to map K-12 AIEd research and synthesize the major findings from 102 systematic reviews.

• The existing systematic reviews lack attention to AI education and literacy, and AIEd theories.

• We identified four major challenges: technological limitations, pedagogical hurdles, ethical risks, and systemic barriers.

• Many review studies need to improve data management, extraction process, analysis method, and reporting of limitations.

• We developed a quality assessment rubric to evaluate systematic reviews across various fields.