Title: Associate Professor, Executive Committee of School and Counseling Psychology Doctoral Program
Department: Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology
School/Center: School of Health Professions
Office Location: 404 International Village
Phone: 617-373-4683
Fax: 617-373-8892
Email: c.li@neu.edu
Education: EdD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Certification: Licensed Psychologist
Specializations: School Psychology
Research: Dr. Li has expertise in providing assessment, counseling, and consultation services for children and families from multicultural backgrounds, particularly for Asian-American children and families. She conducts cross-cultural research on learning and creative problem solving, bilingual and bicultural issues in school, and counseling psychology practice, and she publishes in English and Chinese. She has also been exploring the impact of traditional Chinese qigong on health and creativity.
Public Service:
University
Member of Diversity Committee of Bouve College of Health Sciences
State
Board member of Massachusetts School Psychology Association
Committee member of Massachusetts School Psychology Trainers
National
Executive Committee member of Council of Directors of School Psychology Programs
Member of Task Force of Futures of School Psychology on Home-School Partnership
Courses:
(1) Cross-Cultural Counseling
(2) Advanced Cross-Cultural Psychology
(3) Psychological Testing,
(4) Psychology of Individuals with Special Needs
(5) Psycho-educational Assessment of Preschoolers
(6) Applied Research Projects for School Psychology
(7) School-based counseling,
(8) School Psychology Seminar
Publications:
Li, C., & Vazquez-Nuttall, E. (in press). School consultants as agents of social justice for multicultural children and families. In special issue, Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation.
Vazquez-Nuttall, E., Li, C., & Kaplan, J.P. (2006). Home-School Partnerships with Culturally Diverse Families: Challenges and Solutions for School Personnel. Special issue, Journal of Applied School Psychology 22, 81-102.
Li, C., Zhu, W., & Nuttall, R.(2003) Familial Handedness and Spatial Ability: A Study with Chinese Students Ages 14-24. Brain and Cognition, 51, 357-384.
Li, C., Zhu, W., Zhao, S. & Nuttall, R. (2002). Spatial abilities and academic major: A study with Chinese undergraduates. Academic Journal of Capital Normal University, No. 2 (in Chinese), p.p.120-124.
Li, C. & Nuttall, R. (2001). Writing Chinese and Mathematics Achievement: A study with Chinese-American undergraduates. Mathematics Education Research Journal, 13(1), 15-27.
Li, C. (2000) Instruction effect and developmental levels: A study on Water Level Task with Chinese children 9-17. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 25, 488-498.
Li, C. Nuttall, R., & Zhao, S. (1999). Effect of writing Chinese characters on success of Water-Level Task. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 30, 91-105.
Li, C., Nuttall, R., & Zhao, S.(1999). A test of the Piagetian Water-level Task with Chinese students. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 160, 369-380.
Li, C. Nuttall, R., & Zhu, W. (1999). Writing Chinese characters and success on Mental Rotation Test. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 88, 1261-1270.
Vasquez-Nuttall, E., Li, C., Dynda, A. M., Ortiz, S.O., Armengol, C., Walton, J., &Phoenix, K. (2007).Cognitive Assessment of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. In Esquivel, G. B., Lopez, E. C. & Nahari, S. (Eds.), Handbook of Multicultural Psychology.
Li, C., Zhu, W., & Nuttall, R. (2001). Spatial and verbal abilities in visual art students: A study with Chinese undergraduates. In Columbus, F. (Ed.). Progress in Education 3 , (pp.263-273). New York: NOVA Science Publishers.
Li, C., Walton, J. R., Nuttall, E.V.(1999). Preschool evaluation of culturally and linguistically diverse children. In Nuttall, E.V., Romero, I., & Kalesnik, J. (Eds.), Assessing and Screening Preschoolers: Psychological and Educational Dimensions-Revised, 296-317. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Vasquez-Nuttall, E., Li, C., Sanchez, W., Nuttall, R. L., & Mathison, L. J. (2002). Assessing the culturally and linguistically different child with emotional and behavioral problems. In Breen, M. J., & Fiedler, C. R. (Eds.) Behavioral Approaches to the Assessment of Youth with Emotional-Behavioral Disorders: A Handbook for School Based Practitioners. (2nd ed.). Austin, Texas: Proed. (Second author with colleagues and graduate student).
Media
2001/7/7 Boston Globe reported their interview of me regarding my findings on writing Chinese and SAT mathematics score, entitled “Putting Chinese to the test: Learning language may boost SATs”, on the front page of City & Region section, pp.B1 and B4.
2001/9/ Chronicle of Higher Education reported my research, entitled “Want to give your children an extra edge on the SAT? Teach them to write Chinese” on Research: WHO KNEW, p. A30.
2001/7/12 World Journal (a Chinese newspaper distributed nation wide in the U.S.), wrote a news report entitled “Writing Chinese and higher SAT Score: Chinese-American Scholar Chieh Li found from her research that writing Chinese may facilitate processing images”, on B2.
1999/1/28 Channel 5 (WCVD, in Boston, MA) aired their interview of me regarding my research on writing Chinese and spatial ability, on 5 O’clock News.
1999/1/15 World Journal (世界日报, a Chinese newspaper distributed nation wide in the U.S.), interviewed me and reported “Northeastern University Assistant Professor Chieh Li found from her research that writing Chinese may facilitate spatial ability and math”, on B1.
