Xiaofeng Steven Liu xliu@sc.edu EDUCATION December, 1999, Ph ...

Xiaofeng Steven Liu
xliu@sc.edu
EDUCATION
December, 1999, Ph.D., Michigan State University
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2006-present Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Educational Studies,
University of South Carolina
2000-2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of
South Carolina
2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
HONOR
Dean Scholar, Michigan State University, 1995-1998
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Liu, X., & Ramsey, J. (in press). Teachers' Job Satisfaction: Analyses of the Teacher
Follow-up Survey in the United States for 2000-2001, Teaching and Teacher Education.
Liu, X. (2007). The Effect of Teacher Influence At School on First-year Teacher
Attrition: A Multilevel Analysis of the Schools and Staffing Survey for 1999-2000,
Educational Research and Evaluation, 14, 1-16.
Liu, X., & Meyer, J. P (2005). Teachers’ perceptions of their job: a multilevel analysis of
the Teacher Follow-up Survey for 1994-95, Teachers College Record, 107, 985-1003.
Liu, X., & Raudenbush, S. (2004). A Note on the Noncentrality Parameter and Effect
Size Estimates for the F Test in ANOVA. Journal of Educational and Behavioral
Statistics, 29, 251-255.
Liu, X. (2003). Statistical Power and Optimum Sample Allocation Ratio for Treatment
and Control Having Unequal Costs per Unit of Randomization. Journal of Educational
and Behavioral Statistics, 28, 231-248.
Raudenbush, S., & Liu, X. (2001). Effects of Study Duration, Frequency of Observation,
and Sample Size on Power in Studies of Treatment Effects on Polynomial Change,
Psychological Methods, 6, 387-401.
Raudenbush, S., & and Liu, X. (2000). Statistical Power and Optimal Design for
Multisite Randomized Trials. Psychological Methods, 5, 199-213.
GRANTS
Yell, M., Drasgow, E., & Liu, X. Co-PI. (2006-2009). Development of the IEP Quality
Scale. US Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences.

Liu, X. Principal investigator. (2005-2007) Teachers’ Job Satisfaction and Teacher
Turnover. Spencer Foundation.
Liu, X. Principal investigator. (2002-2004). Professional Support, School Conditions, and
First-year Teacher Attrition. American Educational Research Association.
Liu, X. Principal investigator. (2001-2002). Social Background and Career Patterns of
Elementary/Secondary School Teachers. Research and Productive Scholarship at the
University of South Carolina.
REFEREED PRESENTATIONS
Kissel, H., Meyer, J.P., & Liu, X. (2006). Successful Retention of New and Minority
Teachers: Results from the SASS and TFS, to be presented at the annual meeting of
American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA.
Kim, D., & Liu, X. (2005). The Effects of First-year Teacher Induction on Teacher
Planned Retention, to be presented at the annual meeting of American Educational
Research Association (AERA), Montreal, Canada.
Liu, X. (2004). School Milieu and First-year Teacher Attrition, presented at the annual
meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA.
Liu, X. (2003). Derivation of Expected Mean Squares for Mixed-effects ANOVA through
the Use of Hierarchical Linear Modeling, presented at the 4th international Amsterdam
conference on multilevel analysis, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Liu, X., & Meyer, J.P. (2003). Teachers’ perceptions of their job: a multilevel analysis of
the Teacher Follow-up Survey for 1994-95, presented at the 15 th Annual Conference of
South Carolina Educators for the Practical Use of Research, Columbia, SC.
Liu, X. (2003). Optimal sample allocation ratio for treatment and control having unequal
costs in multilevel designs, presented at the annual meeting of American Educational
Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL.
Liu, X. (2002). An introduction to Hierarchical Linear Modeling. Invited feature
presentation, the 32nd Annual Meeting of South Carolina chapter of American Statistical
Association, Columbia, SC.
Liu, X., & Raudenbush, S. (2001). Computation of Power for 3-level Hierarchical
Linear Models, paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research
Association (AERA), Seattle, WA.
Liu, X. & Raudenbush, S. (1998). Statistical power, effect size, and sample size in
experiments, paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research
Association (AERA), San Diego,CA.
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Raudenbush, S., & Liu, X. (1998). Statistical power and optimal sample allocation in
randomized experiments and cluster randomized trial, paper presented at the annual
meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA.
DEVELOPED SOFTWARE
Raudenbush, S., Liu, X., & Congdon, R. (2004). Optimal Design Program.
TAUGHT COURSES
EDRM 710 Educational Statistics I
EDRM 711 Educational Statistics II
EDRM 718 Research/Statistical Package
EDRM 810 Design and Analysis of Experiments
EDRM 816 Correlational and Multivariate Methods
EDRM 878 Seminar in Research Techniques/Hierarchical Linear Modeling
EDRM 899 Doctoral Dissertation Preparation
PROFESSIONAL AFFLIATION
American Educational Research Association
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