Yinmei Wan

Senior Researcher

Yinmei Wan is a senior researcher at AIR. She has expertise in designing and implementing rigorous educational research and evaluation projects. Dr. Wan has played integral roles in various research projects around educator quality. She works on the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest team and leads the research effort for the Educator Effectiveness Research Alliance. Dr. Wan leads the teacher outcomes and implementation fidelity studies of two Investing in Innovation Fund grants: the evaluation of TNTP’s Teacher Effectiveness and Certification Initiative and the evaluation of eMINTS’ Expansion Project. She is a What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) certified reviewer. She has extensive experience in analyzing large and complex educational datasets, including datasets from large urban districts, state, and national data sets.

Dr. Wan’s other areas of expertise include state data systems, data use, school turnaround, and international and comparative education. She received training from top research methodologists at the Institute of Education Sciences–sponsored Randomized Controlled Trials Summer Institute in 2013 and Workshops on Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis in Education in 2011. Dr. Wan is proficient in several analytical packages, including HLM, SPSS, R, STATA, mPLUS, and Nvivo.

Yinmei Wan
Expertise
Education
District and School Improvement
International Comparisons in Education
Teacher Preparation and Performance

Ph.D., Higher Education, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; M.A., English Language and Literature, Sichuan University (China); B.A., English, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)

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Related Work

Past and Projected Trends in Teacher Demand and Supply in Michigan

State and school district leaders in Michigan are concerned about the challenges some districts are facing in filling certain classroom teacher vacancies and about the harmful impact of teacher shortages on students, schools, and communities. This study provides a systematic analysis of trends in teacher demand, supply, and shortages in ...

Review of Evidence: Arts Education Research Through the Lens of the Every Student Succeeds Act

30 Nov 2018
ESSA includes a wide variety of ways for educators to support student success—including programs and funding streams that can be used to support arts education. In order to access the funding, education agencies must show evidence for how their proposed program can support or improve student outcomes. AIR examined hundreds ...

Impact of TNTP’s Teaching Fellows in Urban School Districts

04 May 2017
Urban school districts often rely on alternative teacher certification programs to help address ongoing demands for recruiting and hiring qualified teachers. These programs offer pathways into teaching outside of traditional university-based teacher education programs. This report summarizes a multi-year evaluation of the implementation and impacts of one of those programs, ...

Strategies for Estimating Teacher Supply and Demand Using Student and Teacher Data

01 Dec 2016
Every year the U.S. Department of Education reports for each state in the country the grade levels, subject areas, and geographic areas that have experienced teacher shortages. By law the Minnesota Department of Education must conduct a multimethod teacher supply and demand study every two years. This report, a joint ...

An Examination of the Movement of Educators Within and Across Three Midwest Region States

17 Nov 2016
Education leaders have expressed concern about educators’ moving to different schools—within the same state or in another state—because these moves create costs for the home district and have potential impacts on the equitable distribution of effective educators among schools. This study's findings provide initial insights into the intrastate and interstate ...