Sandra Tang
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Sandra Tang joined ICPSR in 2020 as an Assistant Research Scientist. She works with colleagues across disciplines in academic, applied, and policy research settings. In her research, she uses various types of data (quantitative, qualitative, audiovisual) to investigate how family context and family-school partnerships promote students’ educational success and positive developmental outcomes. In addition to collecting and analyzing existing data, she has created data for other researchers to use. She was the PI of a project that created a geospatial data module on food accessibility in the United States. This data module links commercial and administrative data to longitudinal survey data on children and families in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Sandra earned a Ph.D. in Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology from Boston College and completed an NICHD postdoctoral training fellowship in Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan.
- Private: Waters,Nicholas, Private: Ahmed,Sammy F, Tang, Sandra, Morrison, Frederick J, Davis-Kean, Pamela. 2021. Pathways from socioeconomic status to early academic achievement: The role of specific executive functions. Early Childhood Research Quarterly 54:321-331.
- Tang, Sandra, Patrick, Megan E. 2020. A latent class analysis of adolescents' technology and interactive social media use: Associations with academics and substance use. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies 2(1):50-60.
- Jessica Marie Finlay, Michael Hughes Esposito, Sandra Tang, Iris Gomez-Lopez, Dominique LaDawn Sylvers, Suzanne Judd, Philippa J Clarke. 2020. Fast-food for thought: Retail food environments as resources for cognitive health and wellbeing among aging Americans?. Health & Place 64:102379.
- Tang, Sandra, Davis-Kean, Pamela, Waters, Nicholas, Ahmed, Sammy F. 2019. Executive function and academic achievement: Longitudinal relations from early childhood to adolescence. Journal of educational psychology 111(3):446-458.
- Sandra Tang, Jon Miller. 2019. The impact of the Great Recession on the ability of parents to fund their children's college education. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 10(2):217-240. PMCID: PMC8046009 .
- Sandra Tang, Megan E Patrick. 2018. Technology and interactive social media use among 8th and 10th graders in the U.S. and associations with homework and school grades. Computers in Human Behavior 86:34-44.
- Sandra Tang, Pamela Davis-Kean, Meichu Chen, Sexton, Holly R. 2016. Adolescent Pregnancy's Intergenerational Effects: Does an Adolescent Mother's Education Have Consequences for Her Children's Achievement?. Journal of Research on Adolescence 26(1):180-193.
- Tang, Sandra, Mcloyd, Vonnie C, Hallman, Samantha K. 2016. Racial Socialization, Racial Identity, and Academic Attitudes Among African American Adolescents: Examining the Moderating Influence of Parent-Adolescent Communication. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 45(6):1141-1155.
- Davis-Kean, Pamela, Tang, Sandra. 2015. Parenting with Digital Devices. Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Tang, Sandra. 2015. Social Capital and Determinants of Immigrant Family Educational Involvement. The Journal of Educational Research 108(1):22-34.