Dr. YANG Lan (Joy) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, the Education University of Hong Kong. She obtained her PhD from The University of Hong Kong and her doctoral dissertation on a longitudinal intervention on promoting Chinese students’ academic self-concept and academic achievement was awarded the "Highly Commended Dissertation Award" by the Global SELF Research Network (2013); selection panel was chaired by Prof. Herbert Marsh (Top 1% Highly-Cited Researcher in the Social Sciences and one of the most productive educational psychologists in the world).  Her recent research focuses on harnessing the power of formative assessment from the perspective of psychology including a wide range of influential psychological constructs (e.g., self-concept, achievement emotions, learning engagement etc.). Recently, the Psychology and Assessment SIG led by Dr. Joy Yang has been established under the KRA, the Education University of Hong Kong.

:-) For more updated publication outputs, please see Joy's ORCID

See also Joy's Scholar. google Link

Two recent book publications with Open Access for the readers to download the full text PDF:

Understanding and Developing Student Assessment Literacy

Social and Emotional Development for Diverse Learners: The Addition of Asian Perspectives

• Feedback and emotion
• Assessment for learning
• Assessment as learning
• Questionnaire development
• Quantitative research methodology

Member

• International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA)
• The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
• The American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• International Forum of Researchers in Education (IFORE)
• International Association of Cross-cultural Psychology (IACCP)
• International Research Network on Equity in Youth Education and Training (IRNEYET)
• The Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong
• The Special Education Society of Hong Kong
• Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), the Education University of Hong Kong
• Centre for Research on Chinese Language and Education (CRCLE), the Education University of Hong Kong
• Centre for Advancement in Inclusive and Special Education (CAISE), The University of Hong Kong
• Social Metacognition and Big Data International Research Network, World Educational Research Association (WERA)
• UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab
• Hong Kong Teaching Excellence Alliance (HKTEA)

Judge

• QS Reimagine Education Awards

Editorial Board

• Contemporary Education and Teaching Research
• Frontiers in Education: Assessment, Testing and Applied Measurement Section (Associate Editor)
• Frontiers in Education: Special Educational Needs Section (Review Editor)
• Frontiers in Education: Educational Psychology (Review Editor)
• Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology (Consulting Editor)
• Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology (Leading Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Harnessing the Power of Teacher Feedback)
• Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology (Leading Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Harnessing the Power of AI-assisted Feedback)
• Educational Research for Policy and Practice
• Educational Studies, AESA
• Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
• International Journal of Comparative Education and Development
• Journal of Global Humanities and Social Sciences
• Studies in Educational Evaluation (Leading Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Harnessing the Power of Peer Feedback)

Reviewer

• Asia Pacific Journal of Education
• Autism Research
• Applied Developmental Science
• British Journal of Educational Psychology
• Behavioral Sciences
• BMC Psychology
• CAISE Review
• Cogent Education
• Contemporary Educational Psychology
• Discover Education
• Education Psychology
• Educational Research and Evaluation
• Educational Research for Policy and Practice
• European Journal of Education
• European Journal of Psychology of Education
• Education Journal
• Education Technology & Society
• Frontier in Education
• Frontier in Psychology
• Higher Education
• Hong Kong Journal of Special Education
• Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
• International Journal of Educational Psychology
• International Journal of Educational Research
• International Journal of Chinese Language Education
• Language Assessment Quarterly
• Learning and Individual Differences
• Pedagogies: An International Journal
• PlosOne
• Psychological Test Adaptation and Development
• SAGE Open
• School Psychology International
• Social Sciences & Humanities Open
• Studies in Educational Evaluation
• Teaching and Teacher Education
• Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice
• The Asian-Pacific Education Researcher
• The Internet and Higher Education