Mauricio Estrada Matute

Senior Researcher

Mauricio Estrada Matute is a Senior Researcher at AIR. He has 16 years of experience supporting education in low- and middle-income countries by providing technical assistance and capacity building on designing, implementing, analysing, and disseminating results of educational assessments.

Estrada Matute performs psychometric and statistical analyses required for reporting and interpretation of results. He delivers capacity building on developing content and performance standards, constructing tests for formative and summative assessments, and producing score reports for decision-makers, stakeholders, donor agencies and implementing partners.

Since 2014, he has either led or supported student assessment activities in Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, and Lesotho. 

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Expertise
International Education
International Foundational Learning
International Standards and Assessment
Services
Technical Assistance
Systems Change

M.Sc. Learning Design and Technology, University of Maryland Global Campus

Contact Mauricio Estrada Matute

+1.202.403.5000
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