Education & Human Development

Faculty & Staff

Shihfen Tu
shihfen.tu@umit.maine.edu

225 Merrill Hall
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5749

(207) 581-9064
(800) 203-6957 voice/TTY
(207) 581-9060 fax

Title
Associate Professor of Education and Applied Quantitative Methods

Education
Doctor of Philosophy -- Psychology ( Cognition and Perception )
   University of Washington -1994
   Minor in Quantitative Psychology

Bachelor of Science -- Agricultural Economics
   National Chung-Hsing University -1985
   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

Recent 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)

Project Affiliation

• ChildLINK
• Partnership for Early Childhood Health and Service
• ACC Network

Updated: 06/20/2006