Biography Verónica Santelices

PhD. in Education, Quantitative Measure and Evaluation from the Graduate School of Education, University of California Berkeley, CA. (2007). Currently, she is an associate professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Department of Education. Her research interests include educational measurement and educational policy. In statistics for the social sciences, she has researched the validity, reliability and equity of different assessments systems including teacher quality measures (value added models as well as standards-based systems), admissions tests (e.g., the SAT in the United States, the PSU in Chile) and admission indicators such as the high school ranking. She received a PhD in Education from University of California Berkeley in 2007, a Masters in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy in 2001, and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1997. Facultad de Educación, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.