• Ph.D. Educational Psychology – Statistics & Measurement, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 2012
• M.A. Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
• M.A. School Counseling, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
• B.A. Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

• Senior/ Research Data Analyst, Assessment Resource Center, University of Missouri, 2015-2017
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology, University of Missouri, 2015-2017
• Research Specialist/Project Coordinator, Alcohol Cognitions Lab, Department of Psychological Science, University of Missouri, 2012-2015
• Summer Research Intern, Research, Assessment and Accountability Office of Columbia Public School, Columbia MO, 2009

• Large-scale assessment in education
• Latent variable modeling
• Psychometric studies

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• Tsai, C. L., Brown, C., Estrada, S., & Ku, H. Y. (2025). Course interactivity, college generation status, and learning experiences in online asynchronous courses. Distance Education, 1–27. 
• Wang, L., Hung, Y.-L., Chen, T.-Y., Wei, M., Tsai, C.-L., Kivlighan, D. M., Jr., Wang, S.-C., & Ho, C.-Y. (2025). A study on the effects of emotional cultivation workshops on teacher emotional regulation and social-emotional well-being. Journal of Research in Education Sciences, 70(3), 99-131..
• Casey, K., Tsai, C. L., Oja, K., & Fink, R. M. (2025). The Revised Casey-Fink Graduate Nurse Experience Survey 2023: A Psychometric Evaluation. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 55(10):p 567-573,  
• Freitas, K., Tsai, CL, & Wang, SY. (2025). Increasing Symptom Recognition Using Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes in an Oncology Research Clinic. Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 2025 Aug 26. doi:.
• Tian, L., Zhang, Q., Tsai, C.-L., & Owusu, G. (2025). Coping Profiles Among Chinese College Students: Associations With Depression and Life Satisfaction. The Counseling Psychologist, 53(2), 150-173. 
• Bergin, C., Tsai, C.-L., Prewett, S., Jones, E., Bergin, D. A., & Murphy, B. (2024). Effectiveness of a Social-Emotional Learning Program for Both Teachers and Students. AERA Open, 10. 
• Jones, E. A., Tsai, C. L., & Bergin, C. (2024). Teachers can differentiate between standards-based leadership skills in principal evaluation surveys: a multilevel analysis. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 35(4), 387–412. 
• Tsai, C.-L., Wind, S., & Estrada, S. (2024). Exploring the Effects of Collapsing Rating Scale Categories in Polytomous Item Response Theory Analyses: An Illustration and Simulation Study. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives,  
• Fan, C.-H., Tsai, C.-L., Juang, Y.-T., Wang, H.-T., & Chang, Y.-L. (2024). Cross-cultural examination of school educators’ beliefs about principles of positive behavior support. Psychology in the Schools, 61, 287–303.