Associate Professor of
Education and Applied Quantitative Methods & Coordinator of Research
and Evaluation
University of Maine
Center for Community Inclusion & Disability Studies
5717 Corbett Hall, Room 1
Orono, ME 04469-5717
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Project Affiliation:
Education:
Ph.D., Psychology (Cognition and Perception), University
of Washington
Minor
in Quantitative Psychology
B.S., Agricultural
Economics, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China
Research Interests:
- Developmental Epidemiology
- Biobehavioral and Educational
Informatics
- Instrument Development
- Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum
- Mind, Brain, and Education
- Reasoning and Decision Making
Teaching Experience:
- Cognition
- Cognitive Development
- Experimental Psychology
- Introductory Bio-Behavioral
Statistics
- Introductory Psychology
- Laboratory in Experimental
Psychology
- Laboratory in Statistical
Computation
- Parenting
Representative Publications:
Tu, S., Mason, C. A.,
& Song, Q. (in press). Second-order linkage and family datasets. In
R. C. Urbano & R. M. Hodapp (Eds.), Developmental Epidemiology of
Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities - a volume of
International Review of Research on Mental Retardation.
San Diego, CA: Elsevier.
Doherty, D., Tu, S.,
Schilmoeller, K., & Schilmoeller, G. (2006). Health-related issues in
individuals with agenesis of the corpus callosum.
Child: Care, Health, and Development, 32(3), 333-342.
Scott, M. S., Delgado, C. F., Tu,
S., & Fletcher, K. L. (2005). Selecting and validating tasks from a
kindergarten screening battery that best predict third grade educational
placement. Education and Training in
Developmental Disabilities, 40(4), 377-389.
Mason, C. A., Walker-Barnes, C.J., Tu,
S., Simons, J., & Martinez-Arrue, R. (2004). Ethnic differences in the
affective meaning of parental control behaviors. Journal of Primary
Prevention, 25, 59-79.
Tu, S. & Mason, C. A. (2004).
Organizing Population Data into Complex Family Pedigrees: Application of
a Second-Order Data Linkage to State Birth Defects Registries.
Birth Defects Research Part A (formerly, Teratology),
70, 603-608.
Scott, M. S., Tu, S., & Fletcher, K. L.
(2003). Cross validating a new preschool screening test. Education
and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 38, 167-178.
Tu, S. (2003). Developmental
epidemiology: a review of three key measures of effect. Journal of
Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 32 (2), 187-192.
Recent Presentations:
Schilmoeller, G., Schilmoeller, K., Tu,
S., & Doherty, D. (May, 2006). Health Characteristics Associated
with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum. Invited presentation at the
Multidisciplinary Psychiatric Grand Rounds, Bangor, Maine.
Tu, S. (February, 2006). Data
Linkage Strategies and Issues. Invited presentation at the 2006
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Conference, Washington, D.C.
Mason, C.A., and Tu, S. (November,
2004). Partitioning a Population Attributable Fraction in a Model
with Sequential Effects. The 132nd Annual Meeting of the American
Public Health Association, Washington, D.C.
Tu, S. & Song, Q. (October, 2004).
Data Linkage and De-Duplication. Invited presentation for the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention teleconference on Data
Quality and De-Duplication.
Schilmoeller, G., Schilmoeller, K. &
Tu, S. (August, 2004). Children with ACC and Their Siblings: How
alike are they? 2004 ACC (Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum)
Conference, Madison, Wisconsin.
Tu, S.,
Mason, C.A., and Song, Q. (February, 2004). QUAKE (Quadruple Key
and Encrypiton): A protocol for Linking Sensitive Data. 2004
National Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Conference,
Washington, D.C.
Mason, C.A., Tu, S., Cobo-Lewis, C.,
and Day, P. (January, 2004). Enhancing Birth Defects Surveillance
and Public Health Programs Through Record Linkage in Maine.
Invited presentation at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the National Birth
Defects Prevention Network, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Tu, S.,
Song, Q., and Mason, C.A. (November, 2003). Use of Simulated
Population Data in Evaluating Data Linkage. The 131st Annual
Meeting of American Public Health Association, San Francisco,
California.
Tu, S. (July, 2003). Data and Data
Systems for Special Education Research in Developmental Epidemiology.
Invited presentation at the 2003 Epidemiology & Disability Training
Seminar Sponsored by the Association of University Centers on
Disabilities and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta,
GA.
Mason, C.A., and Tu, S. (April, 2003).
Epidemiological Effects in Developmental Models: A Causal Model
Approach to Partitioning a Population Attributable Fraction. The
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development,
Tampa, Florida.
Mason, C.A., and Tu, S. (February,
2003). Issues and Challenges in Second-Order Integrated
Developmental Database Systems. Invited presentation at the
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention / National Association for
Public Health Statistics and Information Systems Annual Assessment
Initiative Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
Mason, C.A., and Tu, S. (February,
2003). Tracking and Reporting of Infants Identified as At-Risk for
Hearing Loss. Invited presentation at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention 2nd Annual National Conference on Early Hearing
Detection and Intervention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Tu, S., and Mason, C.A. (February,
2003). Use of Data Obtained Through Early Hearing Detection and
Intervention Programs. Invited presentation at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention 2nd Annual National Conference on Early
Hearing Detection and Intervention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Current Funded Research & Grant Activities:
Maine Department of Health and Human
Services (2004 - 2006). Biobehavioral Informatics in Newborn
Screening. Total Cost: $189,575. (PI: S. Tu)
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (2005 - 2006). Partnership for Early Childhood Health and
Service. Total Cost: $248,000. (PI: C. Mason, Co-PI: S. Tu)
Last revised on 05/09/06
