Michael E. MartinezProfessor |
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Research Interests |
learning and cognition, intelligence, science and mathematics education, educational assessment | |
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Academic Distinctions |
2003-04 Mellon Foundation Visiting Scholar Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 2003 Presidential Commendation for Contributions to Psychology American Psychological Association 2002-03 Visiting Scholar The College Board, New York, NY 1994-95 Fulbright Scholar University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Islands 1987-88 Visiting Fellow: National Assessment of Educational Progress Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ |
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Research Abstract |
Michael Edward Martinez is Professor of Education at the University of California, Irvine. He teaches courses on learning and cognition, and on intelligence, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. A former high school science teacher, Dr. Martinez received his Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford University in 1987. He subsequently joined the research staff of the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey, where he developed new forms of computer-based testing for assessment in science, architecture, and engineering. This work resulted in two U.S. patents. At UCI, Dr. Martinez conducts research primarily on the nature and modifiability of intelligence. He has published in such journals as the Educational Psychologist, the Journal of Educational Measurement, and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science. His first book, Education as the Cultivation of Intelligence, was published in 2000. A second book, Learning and Cognition: The Design of the Mind, was published in 2009. While a faculty member at UC Irvine, Dr. Martinez was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of the South Pacific in the Fiji Islands (1994-95). He served as Program Director for the National Science Foundation (2001-02) where he managed the NSF's role in the Interagency Educational Research Initiative (IERI). His honors include appointments as College Board Visiting Scholar (2002-03), Mellon Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (2003-04), Cambridge University Visiting Scholar (2009), and the APA Presidential Commendation for Contributions to Psychology (2003). Michael E. Martinez serves as Vice Chair of the Department of Education and is tasked with the oversight of academic programs. Dr. Martinez is currently the Division 15 (Educational Psychology) representative to the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives and a member of the Division 15 Executive Committee. |
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| Publications | Martinez, M. E. (2010). Learning and cognition: The design of the mind. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill. | |
| Martinez, M. E. (2009). Triple symmetry: Intelligence, education, and human effectiveness. In E. W. Gordon & H. Varenne (Eds.), Comprehensive education: Explorations, possibilities, challenges (pp. 83-103). Mellen Press. | ||
| Martinez, M. E., Peterson, M., Bodner, M. Coulson, A., Vuong, S., Hu, W., Earl, T., & Shaw G. L. (2008). Music training and mathematics achievement: A multi-year, iterative project designed to enhance student learning. In A. E. Kelly & R. A. Lesh (Eds.), Handbook of design research methods in education (pp. 396-409). New York: Routledge. | ||
| Martinez, M. E. (2006). What is metacognition? Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 87, no. 9, 696-699. | ||
| Martinez, M. E. (2004). Differential achievement: Seeking causes, cures, and construct validity. In R. Zwick (Ed.), Rethinking the SAT: The future of standardized testing in university admissions (pp. 235-243). New York: Routledge Falmer. | ||
| Martinez, M. E. (2000). Education as the cultivation of intelligence. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. | ||
| Martinez, M. E. (1999). Cognition and the question of test item format. Educational Psychologist, 34, 207-218. | ||
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Martinez, M. E. (1999). Cognitive representations: Distinctions, implications, and elaborations. In I. E. Sigel (Ed.), The development of representational thought: Theoretical perspectives (pp. 13-31). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. |
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Martinez, M. E., & Katz, I. R. (1996). Cognitive processing requirements of constructed figural response and multiple-choice items in architecture assessment. Educational Assessment, 3, 83-98. |
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Martinez, M. E. (1993). Problem-solving correlates of new assessment forms in architecture. Applied Measurement in Education, 6, 167-180. |
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| Grants | Institute of Education Sciences. Award No. R305A090527 ($3,000,000). Spatial Temporal Mathematics at Scale: An Innovative and Fully Developed Paradigm to Boost Math Achievement Among All Learners. July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2013. Michael E. Martinez, P.I. | |
| National Science Foundation. Award No. EHR-0701867 ($199,985). The Role of Experimentation in STEM Education Research Projects. December 31, 2006 — November 30, 2009. Michael E. Martinez, P.I. | ||
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Professional Societies |
American Educational Research Association American Psychological Association |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2827 | |
| Last updated | 11/17/2009 | |