Publications

Publications & Manuscripts

This page brings together current manuscripts, conference publications, preprints, and presentation-adjacent research records in a form that stays useful for academic applications and collaboration.

Publications & Manuscripts

This page brings together current manuscripts, conference publications, preprints, and presentation-adjacent research records in a form that stays useful for academic applications and collaboration.

PreprintPreprint posted

Diagnosing Appraisal Practice in Systematic Reviews of Educational Interventions: A Methodological Review with a Draft Proposal for EIAT 2026

Fan, S.

EdArXiv · 2026

A methodological review of how systematic reviews of educational interventions appraise study quality, with a draft proposal for an appraisal tool designed for education research contexts.

ManuscriptUnder review

Layered Principalship: Role Boundaries, Teacher Relations, and Accountability in Chinese School Leadership Policy

Fan, S.

Manuscript under review · 2026

A policy analysis of Chinese school leadership that examines how multiple principal roles are assigned in policy and how those roles shape teacher relations, administrative responsibility, and school governance.

ManuscriptUnder review

Systems Before Code: A Goal-to-Milestone Framework for AI-Supported Creative Programming in K-12

Fan, S.

Manuscript under review · 2026

A framework paper proposing a systems-before-code scaffold that helps K-12 students clarify goals, break ideas into milestones, and then move into AI-supported creative programming.

ManuscriptUnder review

Have We Solved Them Yet? A Historical Analysis of Recurring Problem Constructions in Seminal Learning Design and Technology Literature

Fan, S.

Manuscript under review · 2026

A historical analysis of recurring problem constructions in seminal learning design and technology literature, asking whether the field has solved the core problems it has long named.

ManuscriptUnder review

Cultivating Systems Thinking through Game-Making: A Systematic Review on Curriculum Design

Fan, S.

Manuscript under review · 2025

A systematic review of how game-making curricula can cultivate systems thinking through curriculum goals, learning tasks, design processes, and assessment practices.

ManuscriptUnder review

Meaning & Purpose, Curiosity & Exploration: Motivational Rhetorics in China and Ontario Math Curricula

Fan, S.

Manuscript under review · 2025

A comparative curriculum study of how China and Ontario use meaning, purpose, curiosity, and exploration to explain why students should learn mathematics.

Refereed conference proceedingPublished

Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence Tutoring System Based on the Octalysis Framework: Improving Motivational Design and Management within the System

Fan, S.

International Conference on Gamified Learning · 2020

Uses the Octalysis gamification framework to evaluate an AI tutoring system and examine how stronger motivational design can improve learner engagement and system management.