Jenn-Yun Tein

Dr. Tein is a research professor and the Director of the Research Methodology Core at the ASU REACH Institute, with the Department of Psychology. She received her doctorate in quantitative psychology from the Ohio State University.  Her research focuses on program evaluations and various statistical and methodological applications and issues, including measurement, longitudinal modeling, mixture model analysis, multilevel analysis, and survival analysis. She is specifically interested in research and application of mediation and moderation models in prevention research to investigate how an intervention achieves the effects and on which groups or under what conditions the intervention has effects. She also has extensive research experience with children and families of minority populations.