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Senate Faculty
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Michael E. Martinez
Vice-Chair/ Professor
Department of Education
Co-Director
CSU/UCI Joint Ed.D.
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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, The Design of the Mind: An Introduction to Human Learning and Cognition, is in press.
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. (in press). The design of the mind: An introduction
to human learning and cognition. 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. (in press). Triple symmetry: Intelligence, education,
and human effectiveness. In E. W. Gordon & H. Varenne
(Eds.), Comprehensive education: Explorations, possibilities, challenges. Mellen Press.
- 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., Peterson, M., Bodner, M. Coulson, A., Vuong, S., Hu,
W., Earl, T., & Shaw G. L. (in press). 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. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
- 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.
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