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Dr. Bing Han

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Biography

Dr. Bing Han is an Assistant Professor of Elementary Education at Utah Valley University and a LETRS-certified educator. Her instructional focus includes elementary literacy instruction and applied statistics for education. She brings a global perspective shaped by academic training in both the United States and China. She holds K–12 teaching credentials in both countries and has taught at the elementary, secondary, and university levels.

With an interdisciplinary background that bridges literacy education, linguistics, and educational psychology, Dr. Han's research explores the cognitive and linguistic processes that shape language and literacy development in monolingual and bilingual learners. She also studies preservice and in-service teachers' knowledge of literacy instruction. Dr. Han maintains an active scholarly agenda, publishing and presenting her work at national and international conferences. In addition, she contributes to the field as a peer reviewer for leading journals and conferences, including Reading and Writing, Learning and Individual Differences, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and AERA.

In service, she serves on the School of Education's Literacy Committee, Utah Valley University's AI in Education Committee with UNESCO, and the university's graduate council.

Education

PhD, Texas A&M University, 2022

Major: Curriculum and Instruction, Language and Literacy

Graduate-Level Certificate, Texas A&M University, 2021

Major: Advanced Research Methods (Quantitative)

MA, University of Rhode Island, 2016

Major: Education

Teaching

EDUC 6110

Applied Statistics for Education, Spring 2026

EDEL 4400

Elementary Literacy Instruction and Assessment I, Spring 2026

EDEL 4410

Elementary Literacy Instruction and Assessment II, Spring 2026

Presentations

Han, Bing , Lyon, Stacy , Utah Foreign Language Association (UFLA) Conference, "From Evidence to Classroom_ Morphological and Orthographic Awareness in Chinese DLI Curriculum", Orem, Utah. (March 12, 2026)

Han, Bing , Koh, Poh Wee , Joshi, R.M. , Li, Hong , Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR) Annual Conference, "The Longitudinal Relation Between Orthographic Awareness and Character Writing in Chinese_ A Cross-Lagged Path Analysis. ". (July, 2025)

Cantrell, Emily , Joshi, R. Malatesha , Hudson, Alida , Moore, Karol , Han, Bing , Koh, Poh Wee , Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR) Annual Meeting, "A Systematic Review of US Teacher Knowledge Related to Literacy Concepts.", Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Virtual. (July, 2021)

Han, Bing , Zhang, Shuai , International Dyslexia Association (IDA), "Error Analyses of Chinese Semantic-Phonetic Compound Character Writing. ", International Dyslexia Association, Virtual. (January, 2021)

Han, Bing , Koh, Poh Wee , Li, Hong , Annual conference at Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA), "The Role of Morphological Awareness in Vocabulary Depth_ A Longitudinal Investigation at the Word, Character, and Radical Levels.", Reading and Writing in Asia, Beijing, China (Virtual). (September, 2020)

Han, Bing , Koh, Poh Wee , Li, Hong , Zhang, Shuai , Joshi, R. Malatesha , American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, "Longitudinal Relations Among Levels of Morphological Awareness and Character Reading in Chinese.", American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, United States (Conference canceled due to COVID-19). (April, 2020)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Han, Bing , Koh, Poh Wee , (2025) "Unique Characteristics of Cognitive Constructs and Methodology in Chinese Word Reading" . Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. .

Li, Miao , Zhang, Shuai , Liu, Yuting , Snow, Catherine , Zhang, Huan , Han, Bing , (2025) "Using Decoding Measures to Identify Reading Difficulties_ A Meta-analysis on English as a First Language Learners and English Language Learners" (Issue: 1, vol. 37). Springer: Educational Psychology Review. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-025-09987-1

Han, Bing , Milburn, Trelani F., Koh, Poh Wee , Joshi, R Malatesha , (2023) "Understanding types of Chinese writing-to-dictation errors" . Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003284048-16

Zhang, Shuai , Han, Bing , Hudson, Alida K., Moore, Karol A., Joshi, R. Malatesha , Levie, R. , Bar-On, A. , Ashkenazi, O. , Dattner, E. , Brandes, G. , (2022) "John Effect in literacy acquisition_ The role of morphological awareness in literacy acquisition in different orthographies. In Levie, R., Bar-On, A., Ashkenazi, O., Dattner, E., & Brandes, G. (Eds.). Developing language and literacy (pp. 369-385). " . Springer Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99891-2_14

Han, Bing , Koh, Poh Wee , Zhang, Shuai , Joshi, R. Malatesha , Li, Hong , (2022) "The Relative Contributions of Facets of Morphological Awareness to Vocabulary Development in Chinese_ A Longitudinal Study in Grades One to Three" (vol. 69). Contemporary Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2022.102063

Zhang, Shuai , Wijekumar, Kausalai , Han, Bing , (2021) "An Analysis of Grade 4 Reading Textbooks Used in Mainland China_ Do the Texts and Activities Support Higher Order Reading Comprehension Skills?" (Issue: 2, vol. 26). Technology, Knowledge and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-021-09504-7

Elementary Literacy Instruction and Assessment I, Fall 2022

EDEL 4400

Elementary Literacy Instruction and Assessment I, Fall 2022

EDEL 4410

Elementary Literacy Instruction and Assessment II WE, Fall 2022

Hudson, Alida K., Moore, Karol A., Han, Bing , Koh, Poh Wee , Cantrell, Emily , Joshi, R. Malatesha , (2021) "Elementary Teachers’ Knowledge of Foundational Literacy Skills_ A Critical Piece of the Puzzle in the Science of Reading" (vol. 56). Reading Research Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.408

Cantrell, Emily , Hudson, Alida K., Han, Bing , Moore, Karol A., Koh, Poh Wee , Joshi, R. Malatesha , (2020) "Teacher Education_ The Foundation of the Big Five of Reading Instruction" (vol. 3). The Reading League.