Dr. Olivarez received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a specialization in Research, Measurement and Statistics, from Texas A&M University. He received his M.S. in Mathematics Education specializing in Mathematics Instruction and B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Business Administration from the University of Texas – Pan American. Dr. Olivarez is a member of the American Educational Research Association, the Southwest Educational Research Association, the National Council on Educational Measurement and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Current interests include: performance assessment of curriculum, mathematics education, applied statistics, research methodology and latent partition methodology.