Yasuo Miyazaki

• Multilevel Models (AKA Hierarchical Linear Models)
• Growth Curve Modeling in Longitudinal Data Analysis
• Impacts of Measurement Error in Covariates on Treatment Effects
• ANCOVA and Change Score Analysis in Lord's Paradox

• Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2000

• Editorial Board / Associate Editor: Behaviormetrika
• Ad-hoc Reviewer for Refereed Journals: 
  Psychological Methods
  Applied Psychological Measurement
  Journal of Applied Measurement
  Behaviometrika
  Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
• Session discussant, chair, and moderator in professional organization conferences:
  Annual Meeting of for the National Council on Measurement in Education, 2010
  Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, 2006
  International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, 2009, 2011. 
• Reviewer of Annual Meeting paper proposals:
  American Educational Research Association
  National Council on Measurement in Education

• Excellence in Access and Inclusion Award, Virginia Tech Students with Disabilities Office and the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, April 22, 2014
• Virginia Tech School of Education Teaching Excellence Award, April 2012

Journal Articles

• Miyazaki, Y., Kamata, A., Uekawa, K., & Sun, Y. (2022). Bias for treatment effect by measurement error in pretest in ANCOVA analysis. Educational and Psychological Measurement. OnlineFirst: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00131644211068801
• Miyazaki, Y., Du, C., Papadopoulos, J., & Du, H. (2020). Multilevel analysis of factors associated with left behind children in China. Asian Social Science, 16(10), 1-15. doi: 10.5539.ass.v16n10p1
• Miyazaki, Y., Chungbaek, Y., Shropshire, K. O., & Hedeker, D. (2019). Consequences of ignoring nested data structure on item parameters in Rasch/1P-IRT model. Behaviormetrika, 46(2), 401-434
• Hori, K., & Miyazaki, Y. (in press). Latent curve detrending for disaggregating between-person effect and within-person effect. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal
• Jones, B. T., Miyazaki, Y., Li, M., & Biscotte, S. (in press) Motivational climate predicts student evaluations of teaching: Relationships between students’ course perceptions, ease of course, and evaluations of teaching. AERA Open
• Bruce, M. D., Miyazaki, Y., & Bell, M. A. (in press). Infant attention and maternal education influence childhood receptive vocabulary development. Developmental Psychology.
• Miyazaki, Y., & Sugisawa, T. (in press). A simulation study on appropriate transformations of reliability coefficient in mixed-effects meta-analysis models. Japanese Journal for Research on Testing. 
• Miyazaki, Y., and Stack, M. (2015). Examining individual and school characteristics associated with child obesity using a multilevel growth model (in press). Social Science & Medicine, 128, 57-66. 
• Agnich, L. E., & Miyazaki, Y. (2013). A multilevel cross-national analysis of direct and indirect forms of school violence. Journal of School Violence, 12(4), 319-339. 
• Kamata, A., Bauer, D. J., & Miyazaki, Y. (2008). Multilevel measurement modeling. In A. A. O’Connell, & D. B. McCoach (Eds.). Multilevel Modeling of Educational Data (pp. 345-388). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. 

Book Chapter

• Kamata, A., Bauer, D. J., & Miyazaki, Y. (2008). Multilevel measurement modeling. In A. A. O’Connell, & D. B. McCoach (Eds.), Multilevel Modeling of Educational Data (pp. 345-388). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

• Marathe, Madhav (PI), Fox, G. (Co-PI); Leskovec, J. (Co-PI), Ramakrishnan, N. (Co-PI), Esterline, A. (Co-PI), Alo, R. (Co-PI), Meghanathan, N. (Co-PI), Chaudhary, A. (Co-PI), Rossi, R. (Co-PI), Nesreen Ahmed, N. (Co-PI), Hagberg, A. (Co-PI), Amelink, A. (Co-PI), Miyazaki, Y. (Co-PI), Kuhlman, C. (Co-PI), Sosic, R., Ravi, S. (Co-PI), Fox, E. (Co-PI), Collaborative Research: Framework: Software: CINES: A Scalable Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Innovation in Network Engineering and Science, (OAC-1835660) Sponsored by NSF, $3,600,000. (Nov., 1, 2018 – Oct., 31, 2023).
  
• Collaborative Research: Framework: Software: CINES: A Scalable Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Innovation in Network Engineering and Science, University of Virginia, National Science Foundation, USD 466,515 (Active: 11/01/2018 - 10/31/2022), Principal Investigators: Fox Edward A (63%), Miyazaki Yasuo (11%), Collins Kristy M (9%), Ramakrishnan Narendran (9%), Amelink Catherine T (8%)
• Lawson, Gerard (Principal Investigator), Patrizio, Kami M (Co-Principal Investigator), Miyazaki, Yasuo (Co-Investigator), Skaggs, Gary (Co-Investigator), "A Multiple Perspectives Analysis of the Influences on the School to Prison Pipeline in Virginia," Sponsored by National Institute of Justice, $914,241.00. (January 1, 2016 – December 31, 2017).
• White, S. (PI), Asselin, S. (Co-PI), Miyazaki, Y. (Co-PI), "STEPS: Stepped Transition in Education Program for Students with ASD," Sponsored by NIMH, $666,498. (September 1, 2014 – August 31, 2017). 
• Miyazaki, Y. (PI) & Creamer, E. (Co-PI). Investigating the accuracy of standard error of ability and necessary number of items using HLM to study K-12 and health and education practices (2015). 2015 - 2016 Niles Research Grant Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, $3,796. 

• Collaborative Faculty, Practice Data Science Center, Graduate School of Education, Okayama University, Japan
• Affiliate Faculty, Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.