GUAN K. SAW 501 W. Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. (210) 458-2566 San Antonio, TX 78207 guan.saw@utsa.edu EDUCATION 2016 Ph.D., Michigan State University Measurement and Quantitative Methods 2008 M.Ed., National Taiwan Normal University Sociology of Education 2000 B. Eng., University of Technology Malaysia Civil Engineering EMPLOYMENT 2016- University of Texas at San Antonio Assistant Professor in Program Evaluation 2003-2006 United Chinese School Committees Association of Malaysia Director, Department of Student Affairs 2000-2003 Chung Hwa High School, Kelantan, Malaysia Vice Principal/Director of Academic Department/Mathematics Teacher ACADEMIC HONORS/AWARDS 2015-2016 AERA Dissertation Fellowship, American Educational Research Association 2015-2016 NLSY 1997 Postsecondary Research Network Fellowship, Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin 2015 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Michigan State University 2013-2015 Robert L. Ebel Endowed Scholarship, Michigan State University 2013-2014 Clifford E. Erickson Memorial Scholarship, Michigan State University 2012-2013 Summer Research Renewable Fellowship, Michigan State University 2011 Summer Research Fellowship, Michigan State University 2010-2015 Graduate Fellowship, Michigan State University 2008-2010 Graduate Scholarship, Democratic Pacific Union, Taiwan 2007 Scholarship for Foreign Students, Ministry of Education, Taiwan 2007 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, National Taiwan Normal University 1997-1999 National Undergraduate Scholarship, Texchem Malaysia 1996-1999 Dean s List, University of Technology Malaysia 1
RESEARCH GRANTS 2015-2016 The causal impact of high school course graduation requirements, American Educational Research Association, in conjunction with National Science Foundation ($20,000) 2015 The causal impact of college readiness interventions, Michigan State University ($6,000) 2015 The causal effect of postsecondary remediation on college attainment, Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin, with support from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ($5,000) 2014 Equality of educational opportunity in Malaysia, Lin Lian Geok Foundation, Malaysia ($2,000) 2012-2013 High school context effects on student STEM outcomes,, Michigan State University ($12,000) 2011 Quasi-experimental designs in educational evaluation, Michigan State University ($5,000) REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Books Schneider, B. (Ed.), Saw, G. K. (Associate Ed.) (in preparation). Handbook of the sociology of education in the 21st century. Springer International Publishing AG. Journal Articles Saw, G. K., Schneider, B. L., Frank, K. A., Chen, I. C., Keesler, V., & Martineau, J. (in press). The impact of being labeled as a persistently lowest achieving school: Regression discontinuity evidence on school labeling. American Journal of Education. Schneider, B. L., & Saw, G. K. (2016). Racial and ethnic gaps in postsecondary aspirations and enrollment. Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2(5), 58-82. Schneider, B. L., Saw, G. K., & Broda, M. K. (2016). A future for the national education longitudinal program. AERA Open, 2(2), DOI: 10.1177/2332858416634686. Saw, G. K. (2016). Patterns and trends in achievement gaps in Malaysian secondary schools (1999-2011): Gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 15(1), 41-54. Saw, G. K., & Schneider, B. L. (2015). Challenges and opportunities for estimating effects with large-scale education data sets. Contemporary Educational Research Quarterly, 23(4), 93-119. 2
Wu, M. L., Richards, K., & Saw, G. K. (2014). Examining a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game as a digital game-based learning platform: Mixed method case study on motivations for communicative language use. Computers in the Schools, 31(1-2), 65-83. Saw, G. K., & Schneider, B. L. (2012). Tracing entrepreneurship orientation in adolescence to business ownership. International Journal of Developmental Science, 6, 151-165. Book Chapters Saw, G. K. (2015). Family and school factors relating to academic achievement gaps in Malaysian middle schools. In S. H. Ngu (Ed.), Chinese education in Malaysia: Challenges and reforms (pp. 241-263). Malaysia: Merdeka University Berhad, LLG Cultural Development Centre, and Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies. (in Chinese) Schneider, B. L., Saw, G. K., & Broda, M. K. (2015). Work and work migration within and across countries in emerging and young adulthood. In L. A. Jensen (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of human development and culture: An interdisciplinary perspective (pp. 554-569). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Work Under Review Saw, G. K. Reducing or reinforcing inequality? Evaluating the impact of postsecondary remediation on college outcomes Saw, G. K. The impact of high school mathematics and science course graduation requirements Minor, E. C., Saw, G. K., Frank, K. A., Schneider, B. L., Obenauf, K. External contextual factors, teacher turnover, and student achievement: The case of Michigan high schools Working Papers Saw, G. K., Minor, E. C., Frank, K. A., & Schneider, B. L. Diminishing value, exit, and switching cost: Student and teacher mobility in persistently lowest achieving high schools in Michigan Saw, G. K., & Schneider, B. L. Becoming a job-creating entrepreneur: The role of human and social capital Saw, G. K., Whether, For Whom, and Under What Conditions Inclusive STEM High Schools influence Student Outcomes? ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS 2015-2016 The 50 th Anniversary of the Coleman Report conference, Baltimore, MD. American Educational Research Association conference, Washington, DC. NLSY97 Postsecondary Research Network conference, Austin, TX. 3
The Coleman Report and Educational Inequality Fifty Years Later conference, New York, NY. Midwest Sociology of Education conference, Iowa City, IA. 2014-2015 American Educational Research Association conference, Chicago, IL. Association for Education Finance and Policy conference, Washington, DC. Midwest Sociology of Education conference, South Bend, IN. Collaboration Among Education Policy Students, East Lansing, MI. International Congress of Applied Psychology, Paris, France. Malaysia Chinese Education Conference, Ipoh, Malaysia. 2013-2014 American Sociological Association conference, San Francisco, CA. American Educational Research Association conference, Philadelphia, PA. Midwest Sociology of Education conference, Madison, WI. Michigan Educational Research Association conference, Bath, Michigan. 2012-2013 Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. American Educational Research Association conference, San Francisco, CA. American Sociological Association conference, New York, NY. 2011-2012 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness conference, Washington, DC. Association for Education Finance and Policy conference, Boston, MA. American Educational Research Association conference, Vancouver, BC. American Sociological Association conference, Denver, CO. Measurement and Quantitative Methods seminar, East Lansing, MI. 2010-2011 American Educational Research Association conference, New Orleans, LA. American Sociological Association conference, Las Vegas, NV. TEACHING Graduate Courses 2016 Program planning and evaluation in higher education, University of Texas at San Antonio. (Instructor) 2015 Causal inference in the social sciences, Michigan State University (Teaching assistant) 2014 Hierarchical linear modeling, Michigan State University (Teaching assistant) 4
Workshops 2015 Sensitivity analysis: Quantifying the discourse about causal inference, AERA Professional Development Course. (Course assistant) 2014 Data analysis and regression modeling, Confucian High School, Malaysia. (Instructor) CONSULTING/ADVISORY SERVICE 2016- Advisory Board member, United Chinese School Committees Association of Malaysia 2015- College Ambition Program, Michigan State University (funded by National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health) PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Ad Hoc Journal Reviewer Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (JREE) Child Development Perspectives (CDP) Journal of International Students (JIS) Conference Paper Reviewer American Educational Research Association conference National Council on Measurement in Education conference University Service Educational Measurement Faculty Search Committee, Michigan State University Community Service Statistician and Data Analyst, Greater Lansing Food Bank 5