Publications

Davidsen, A. H., Dong, Y., Porter, E. F., Ryan, K. F., Bugatti, M., Coleman, J. J., Kopta, M., & Owen, J. (2026). Early identification of psychotherapeutic change: AI‑derived predictors from routine data. Journal of Counseling Psychology.  Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000876

Dong, Y., Baral, D., Baral, K., & Dumas, D. (2026). Exploring psychological tradeoffs: Developing and demonstrating an R Shiny app for Pareto optimization. Behavior Research Methods, 58, Article 214. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-026-03093-y

Kantor, C., Dong, Y., & Baral, K. (2026). A systematic review of language- or culture-adapted executive functioning measures. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 40(3), e70230. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70230

Dong, Y., & Roberts, G. J. (2026). Polish the gold: Calibrating intervention effect estimates for small-scale randomized controlled trials. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/19345747.2026.2634037

Dong, Y., Baral, D., & Baral, K. (2026). Are U.S. Graduate curricula ready to prepare social data scientists for the AI era? Frontiers in Education, 10, 1657651. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2025.1657651

Dong, Y., & Dumas, D. (2025). Capturing developing constructs: Methodologies and validation practices of dynamic measurement. Methods in Psychology, 13, Article  100217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2025.100217

Dong, Y., Clements, D. H., Mulcahy, C., & Sarama, J. (2025). How teaching practices relate to early mathematics competencies: A non-linear modeling perspective. Education Sciences, 15(9), Article 1175. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15091175

Dong, Y., & Dumas, D. (2025). Is a less wrong model always more useful? Methodological considerations for using Ant Colony Optimization in measure development. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000734

Dong, Y. (2025). Pre-uniform measures in the Artificial Intelligence era. Current Psychology [Special Issue: Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Psychology Research…and Beyond]. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-07374-1 

Greene, A. K., Brownstone, L. M., Dong, Y., Hunsicker, M. J., Cool, J., Maloul, E. K., & Norling, H. N. (2025). Instatherapy: A content analysis of psychotherapist Instagram posts and user engagement. Counseling and Psychotherapy Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12877

Coleman, J. J., Grajzel, K., Dong, Y., Davis, D. E., DeBlaere, C., Hook, J. N., & Owen, J. (2024). The development of the Cultural Humility Scale-Short Form (CHS-SF). Psychotherapy Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2024.2435043

Clements, D. H., Dong, Y., Day-Hess, C. A., & Sarama, J. (2024). Longitudinal investigation of early mathematical achievement and classroom strategic diversity: A replication and extension study. Learning and Individual Differences, 114(102516). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102516

Dumas, D., Dong, Y., Kagan, S., & Campbell, W. K. (2024). Exploring the creative personality: Using machine learning to predict quantity and quality of ideas in divergent thinking. Creativity Research Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2024.2371725 

Dong, Y., Baral, K., & Dumas, D. (2024). Criterion measures are not always continuous: Consequential validity ratio for logistic regression. Journal of Experimental Education [Section: Measurement, Statistics, and Research Design].  Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2024.2369333 

Bugatti, M., Dong, Y., Owen, J., J., Richardson, Z., Rasmussen, W., & Newton, D. (2024). The therapy progress scale: evaluating psychometric properties in an outpatient sample of clients in private practice. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481756.2023.2293884

Dong, Y., Clements, D. H., Dumas, D., & Sarama, J. (2024). Classroom strategy diversity and early mathematical growth across intervention conditions. Current Psychology, 43(17), 15908-15924. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05533-w 

McNeish, D., Dumas, D., Dong, Y., & Duellberg, D. (2024). Promoting inclusive recruiting & selection into military training schools: Admission waivers vs. retesting. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109 (3), 415-436. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001147 

Cong, M., Dong, Y., & Chao, R. C.-L. (2024). Acculturative stress of Asian international students before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v16i1.4918 

Dong, Y., Dumas, D., Clements, D. H., Day-Hess, C. A., & Sarama, J. (2023). Evaluating the consequential validity of the Research-based Early Mathematics Assessment. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 41(5), 575–582. https://doi.org/10.1177/07342829231165812 

Dong, Y., Dumas, D., Clements, D. H., & Sarama, J. (2023). Developing a Trajectory Deviance Index for Dynamic Measurement Modeling. Journal of Experimental Education [Section: Measurement, Statistics, and Research Design], 91(2), 358-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2022.2044280

Dumas, D. G., Doherty, M., & Dong, Y. (2022). To map or not to map: Professional actors are capable of validly connecting extremely distant verbal analogues. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000502

Dumas, D., Dong, Y., & McNeish, D. (2022). How fair is my test?: A ratio statistic to help represent consequential validity. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000724.

Coleman, J. J., Dong, Y., Dumas, D., Owen, J., & Kopta, M. (2022). Longitudinal measurement invariance of the Behavioral Health Measure in a clinical sample. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 69(1), 100–110. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000524

Dong, Y., Clements, D. H., Sarama, J., Dumas, D., Banse, H. W., & Day-Hess, C. A. (2022). Mathematics and executive function competencies in the context of interventions: A quantile regression analysis. Journal of Experimental Education [Section: Learning, Instruction, and Cognition], 90(2), 297-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2020.1777070

Dumas, D., Dong, Y., Grajzel, K., Forthmann, B., & Doherty, M. (2021). Understanding ideational fluency as a survival process. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 92(2), 645-666. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12469

Dumas, D., Dong, Y., & Leveling, M. (2021). The zone of proximal creativity: What dynamic assessment of divergent thinking reveals about students’ latent class membership. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 67, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2021.102013

Dong, Y., Clements, D. H., Day-Hess, C. A., Sarama, J., & Dumas, D. (2021). Measuring early childhood mathematical cognition: Validating and equating two forms of the Research-based Early Mathematics Assessment. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 39(8), 983-998. https://doi.org/10.1177/07342829211037195

Roncoroni, J., Dong, Y., Owen, J., & Wippold, G. (2021). The association of sleep duration and feeling rested with health in U.S. Hispanic Women. Sleep Medicine, 83, 54-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2021.03.044

Dumas, D., Dong, Y., & Doherty, M. (2021). The influence of creative expertise on the sensitivity and selectivity of analogical reasoning. Mind, Brain, and Education, 15(3), 239-249. https://doi-org.du.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/mbe.12287

Forthmann, B., Leveling, M., Dong, Y., & Dumas, D. (2020). Investigating the quantity-quality relationship in scientific creativity with quantile regression: An empirical test of the tilted funnel hypothesis. Scientometrics, 124, 2497-2518. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03571-w

Dong, Y., Fan, W., Cheung, F.M., & Li, M. (2020). Development of a short form of the CPAI-A (Form B) with Rasch Analyses. Journal of Applied Measurement, 21(4), 515-532.

Dong, Y. & Dumas, D. (2020). Are personality measures valid for different populations? A systematic review of measurement invariance across cultures, gender, and age. Personality and Individual Differences, 160, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.109956

Clements, D. H., Dumas, D., Dong, Y., Banse, H. W., Sarama, J., & Day-Hess, C. A. (2020). Strategy Diversity in Early Mathematics Classrooms. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 60, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2019.101834 

Dumas, D. & Dong, Y. (2019). Development and calibration of the student opportunities for deeper learning instrument. Psychology in the Schools, 56, 1381-1412. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.22292

Dumas, D., Dong, Y., & Kim, Y. (in press). Balancing the efficiency-validity tradeoff: Consequential and cross-cultural considerations for scaling-up the AI assessment of creativity in education. In R. Beghetto (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Human Creativity x Generative AI in Education. Oxford University Press.

Dong, Y., & Clements, D. H. (2025). Consequential validity of early childhood assessments. In O. Saracho, (Ed.), Research Methods for Studying Young Children. Emerald Group Publishing.

Dumas, D., & Dong, Y. (2022). Relational reasoning and thinking: Theory, measurement, and empirical findings. In T. L. Good & M. McCaslin (Eds.), Educational Psychology Section; D. Fisher (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Education (Online). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781138609877-REE179-1

Dumas, D., & Dong, Y. (2020). Focusing the Relational Lens on Critical Thinking: How Can Relational Reasoning Support Critical and Analytic Thinking? In Critical Thinking and Reasoning (pp. 47-63). Brill Sense. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004444591_004