Shonn Cheng

Shonn Cheng

Assistant Professor

National Taipei University of Technology

Biography

Dr. Shonn Cheng received his doctoral degree in Educational Studies at The Ohio State University in summer 2019. Thereafter, he pursued one-year postdoctoral training at Virginia Commonwealth University. During 2020-2022, he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Instructional Systems Design and Technology at Sam Houston State University. Currently, Dr. Cheng is an assistant pofessor in the Graduate Institute of Technological and Vocational Education at National Taipei University of Technology. Dr. Cheng studies the psychological aspects of human resource development and is interested in leveraging the affordances of technology to enhance individuals' knowledge, motivational processes, and behavior in an organization.

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Interests
  • the intersection between psychology, technology, and human resource development
Education

  • PhD in Educational Studies, 2019

    The Ohio State University (USA)

  • MA in Educational Studies, 2018

    The Ohio State University (USA)

  • MA in Education, 2013

    New Mexico State University (USA)

  • BA in English, 2006

    Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages (Taiwan)

  • AMS in Business Administration, 2004

    National Taipei University of Business (Taiwan)

Recent Posts

Shonn Cheng
Last updated on Sep 11, 2021 3 min read R
How to Display Chinese Characters in ggplot2

Introduction In this post, I am going to demonstrate how to display Chinese characters in ggplot2 #loading necessary packages library(rvest) library(xml2) library(tidyverse) library(tidytext) library(knitr) Let’s get our text data by scraping Chien-Ming Wang’s page on Wikipedia.

Shonn Cheng
Last updated on Sep 10, 2021 6 min read R
Recoding Values

Introduction Recoding values is one of the most common tasks a researcher needs to do before data analysis. For me, often I need to prepare my data in R first before using it for advanced statistical analyses in Mplus.

Shonn Cheng
Last updated on Jul 29, 2021 4 min read R
Computing Composite Scores (Mean)

Introduction In this post, I am going to demonstrate how to compute composite scores or means aggregated over multiple items. There are at least two approaches to achieve the goal.

Recent Publications

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Shonn Cheng, Jui-Chieh Huang, Waneta Hebert (2023). Profiles of vocational college students’ achievement emotions in online learning environments: Antecedents and outcomes. Computers in Human Behavior.

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Sheng-Lun Cheng, Jen-Chia Chang, Kayleigh Romero (2022). Are pedagogical beliefs an internal barrier for technology integration? The interdependent nature of teacher beliefs. Education and Information Technologies.

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Chin-Chih Chen, Sheng-Lun Cheng, Yaoying Xu, Kathleen Rudasill, Reed Senter, Fa Zhang, Melissa Washington-Nortey, Nikki Adams (2022). Transactions between problem behaviors and academic performance in early childhood. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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Chin-Chih Chen, Sheng-Lun Cheng, Yaoying Xu, Christine Spence, Fa Zhang, Nicole B. Adams (2022). Child developmental and special education service receipt: The intersection of health and poverty. Disability and Health Journal.

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Kui Xie, Michael J. Nelson, Sheng-Lun Cheng, Zilu Jiang (2021). Examining changes in teachers’ perceptions of external and internal barriers in their integration of educational digital resources in K-12 classrooms. Journal of Research on Technology in Education.

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