Dr. Carlos Cuauhtémoc Ayala, Assistant Professor
Department of Curriculum Studies and Secondary Education

Stevenson 3011
707.664.3422 tel
707.664.2483 fax
carlos.ayala@sonoma.edu

 

Science Education Assessment and Evaluation Specialist
Fuel Alcohol Chemist,
Middle School Bilingual Math And Science Teacher,
Elementary Principal,
Husband and Father,
El Cien, BCS, MX—July 11, 1991, 7 minutes and four seconds,
Minneapolis—Tierra Del Fuego 1979.

Professional Memberships:

Stanford Educational Assessment Lab, American Education Research Association, National Association for the Research on Science Teaching, National Science Teacher’s Association, California Science Teacher’s Association, Center for Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning.

Publications, Grants, Research:

Yin, Y. , Vanides, J., Ruiz-Primo M.A., Ayala C. C., and Shavelson R. J., (Accepted 1/04) Comparison of Two Construct-a-Concept-Map Science Assessments: Created Linking Phrases and Selected Linking Phrases.

Ruiz-Primo, M.A., Li, M., Ayala, C. C., & Shavelson, R. J., (Accepted , 6/03) Evaluating students' science notebooks as an assessment tool. International Journal of Science Education.

Ayala, C.C. Richard J. Shavelson and Romance Team. (Accepted 7/03) Formative assessment guidelines for teachers. Science Scope National Association for Science Teacher’s middle school journal.

On the Romance between Curriculum and Assessment Project (a.k.a. Romance): Dr. Ayala working with colleagues at Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA and U of Hawaii, are completing an education experiment to investigate the effects of the use of formative assessments and feedback. Dr. Ayala headed the development of the formative assessments and some of the outcome measures and trained the teachers in the use of formative assessments and feedback. Study includes 3 prototype teachers, 6 randomly selected experimental teachers, 6 control group teachers, and approximately 1300 students.

Scaling Up Grant and Project: Dr. Ayala along with colleagues from the University of Hawaii’s Curriculum Research and Development Group CRDG have been award a multi-year National Science Foundation grant to study the effects of three different professional development models on both teacher and student outcomes variables. Dr. Ayala is in charge of the student outcome measures.

Education and Degrees:

Stanford University, Ph.D. Curriculum and Teacher Education-Science Education—8/02, Advisor Dr. Richard Shavelson, Dissertation Title: On the Cognitive Validity of Science Performance Assessments

San Diego State University, Masters of Arts in Educational Leadership—9/96.
California Administrative Services Credential—9/96

UC Santa Cruz, Bachelors of Arts Chemistry and Environmental Studies—8/85.
California Multiple Subject Bilingual Teaching Credential (Elementary)—8/85
California Single Subject Teaching Credential- Physical Science and Chemistry- Bilingual (Secondary)—8/85.