Dr. Jung Yeon Park
PhD, Columbia University
Assistant Professor
Project Evaluator, Advancing Content Integrated Education for English Learners with a STEM Focus
Research Methodology
Contact Information
Phone: 703-993-3691
Email: jpark233 (@gmu.edu)
George Mason University
Fairfax Campus
West Building 2204
4400 University Dr.
Fairfax, VA 22030
Profile
Dr. Jung Yeon (Ellie) Park is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Research Methods at GMU (Spring 2020 - Current). She received her PhD in Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics from Teachers College, Columbia University (2015) and M.S. in Statistics from The George Washington University (2009). Prior to joining Mason, Dr. Park was a postdoctoral researcher at ITEC - KU Leuven's Smart Education Program for projects to advance adaptive e-learning assessment and learning analytics methods to support technology-enhanced learning (2017-2019); and a postdoctoral associate for projects identifying risk and protective factors for suicides among sexual minority youth at New York University's Institute of Human Development and Social Change (2016). She served as a program committee for European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI; 2020) and a proposal review panelist at NSF (2021, 2022).
She teaches doctoral-level quantitative methods courses including: Bayesian Methods (EDRS 829), Machine Learning (EDRS 897), Quantitative Methods in Educational Research (EDRS 811), Advanced Applications of Quantitative Methods (EDRS 821).
Research Interests
Dr. Park's research focuses on psychometric modeling and statistical inference to understand minority populations in the fields of Education, Mental Health, and Applied Psychology.
Dr. Park's research interests include Latent Variable Modeling (Cognitive Diagnosis Models, Item Response Theory Models), Bayesian Data Analysis, Learning Analytics (Adaptive Learning System), and Longitudinal Data Analysis.
She is currently a program evaluator of DOE's NPD Grant titled "Advancing Content-Integrated Education for English Learners with a STEM-focus (ACE-STEM)"; and a Principal Investigator of CEHD's seed Grant titled "ClassSensing: Towards Adaptive Teaching and Engaged Learning in Hybrid-STEM Classrooms".
If you are interested in these research areas or would like to see CV, please email Dr. Park.