Michael E. Martinez

Vice-Chair/ Professor
Department of Education

Co-Director
CSU/UCI Joint Ed.D.

email: memartin@uci.edu
phone: 949.824.5825
office: Education 2042

Biography

Michael E. 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 a College Board Visiting Scholar (2002-03), a Mellon Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (2003-04), 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. He is Co-Director of the CSU-UCI Joint Ed.D. Program and a member of the UC Irvine Graduate Council. 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.

Publications

Books

• Martinez, M. E. (2010). Learning and cognition: The design of the mind. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill.


• Martinez, M. E. (2000). Education as the cultivation of intelligence. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Articles and Book Chapters

• Martinez, M. E., & Kalbfleisch, M. L. (in press). Spanning mathematics education research and cognitive neuroscience: Conceptual and epistemological divergences. In A. E. Kelly, S. Jensen, J. Baek, R. L. Kalbfleisch (Eds.), Neuroscience and mathematics education. New York: Cambridge University Press.


• Martinez, M. E. (in press). 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, 87(9).


• 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. (1999). Cognition and the question of test item format. Educational Psychologist, 34, 207-218.


• 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). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.


• Martinez, M. E. (1998). What is problem solving? Phi Delta Kappan, 79, 605-609.


• 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.


• Martinez, M. E. (1993). Item formats and mental abilities in biology assessment. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 12, 289-301.


• Martinez, M. E. (1993). Problem-solving correlates of new assessment forms in architecture. Applied Measurement in Education, 6, 167-180.


• Martinez, M. E. (1991). A comparison of multiple-choice and constructed figural response items. Journal of Educational Measurement, 28, 131-145.

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)