Education:
PhD, Advanced Quantitative Methods, 2005
University of California, Los Angeles
Research interests include educational measurement and quantitative methods applied to educational assessment systems and program evaluation. While at RAND he participated in large scale evaluations of federal programs in the US (NCLB), and MŽxico (the national teacher incentive program Carrera Magisterial), and a range of projects investigating the measurement and impact of instructional practices in Science and Mathematics. He is co-author of 5 technical reports at the National Center for Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) involving educational accountability systems, longitudinal models, and design of performance asessments. In 2002 he received te Leigh Burstein award at the UCLA School of Education for excellence in research methodology, and in 2001 he was a summer research intern at ETS in Princeton, NJ. Dr. Mart’nez holds a bachelors degree in Information Systems from the University of Aguascalientes, MŽxico, and a Ph.D. in Education from UCLA with a specialization in advanced quantitative methods.
