Guanglei Hong

Comparative Human Development Department, University of Chicago
Assistant Professor

Guanglei Hong is an Assistant Professor in the Comparative Human Development Department at the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty in Chicago, she had been an Assistant Professor in the Human Development and Applied Psychology Department in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto from 2004 to 2009. She had a Master's degree in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Michigan. She has focused her research on developing causal inference theories and methods for evaluating educational policies and instructional programs in multi-level, longitudinal settings. Her work addresses issues including (1) how to conceptualize and evaluate the causal effects of educational treatments when students' responses to alternative treatments depend on various features of the organizational settings, (2) how to adjust for selection bias in estimating the effects of concurrent multi-valued educational treatments, (3) how to study instruction as time-varying treatments for students, and (4) how to conceptualize and analyze mediation mechanisms in evaluating educational interventions. Because advancements in these quantitative research methods are best illustrated and utilized through empirical investigations of prominent educational issues, she communicates with a broad audience through applying the causal inference methods to studies of specific policies and instructional practices such as grade retention, within-class grouping, instructional services for English language learners, and intensive math instruction. Her research has received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Spencer Foundation, the National Academy of Education, the American Educational Research Association Grants Program, and the William T. Grant Foundation among other sources of funding. Her publications have appeared in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, Psychological Methods, and Developmental Psychology. She received a 2002 AERA Dissertation Grant, a 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings Student Paper Competition Award from the American Statistical Association, a 2003 Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education, a 2005 AERA Mary Catherine Ellwein Outstanding Dissertation Award, a 2006 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a 2009-2014 William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Award. She has been elected to serve on the Editorial Boards of four journals including Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Effective Education, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, and Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.

Working Group

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI)

Additional Information

Email: ghong@uchicago.edu