Margarita Olivera-Aguilar

Senior Researcher

Margarita Olivera-Aguilar is a senior researcher at AIR. She supports the Center on Advancing Measurement and Assessment and has extensive experience developing and validating surveys and assessments and applying quantitative research design and statistical methods (such as structural equation modeling and multilevel modeling). Her work at AIR involves designing and analyzing surveys in cross-sectional and longitudinal designs in populations ranging from middle school to the workforce, as well as examining validity and reliability evidence to support the uses of surveys and assessments. 

Before joining AIR, Dr. Olivera-Aguilar was a research scientist at the Educational Testing Service for eight years, where she examined the impact of violations of measurement invariance in latent profile analysis, mediation models, and randomized control trials. She also conducted projects to identify civic learning opportunity indicators and to examine motivational factors related to career and technical education. She was an assistant professor at the National University Autonomous of Mexico. She has served as a psychometrician and quantitative consultant at the National Center for the Evaluation of Higher Education in Mexico.

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