Guadalupe Carmona-Dominguez, Ph.D.

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Guadalupe Carmona-Dominguez, Ph.D.

Professor, Executive Director of ConTex, Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching

Contact

• guadalupe.carmona@utsa.edu

Bio

Dr. Carmona is a Professor in STEM Education at The University of Texas at San Antonio and also serves as Executive Director of ConTex, an initiative between the University of Texas System and Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) to foster binational academic collaborations between Mexico and Texas that are mutually beneficial for both countries. Dr. Carmona’s research has focused on the design, implementation, and evaluation of innovation and technology-supported educational reforms in STEM education in national and international settings. She also conducts research on formative assessment of student learning that takes place in the classroom, and how the use of these practices and indicators can be extended on a large scale. Dr. Carmona’s research agenda for the past 20 years has focused on broadening participation in STEM and addressing the need to prepare the next generation of students who can have democratic access to the fundamental and complex ideas in STEM from an early age. Dr. Carmona has secured more than $12M in external funding. Her work has been translated into different languages and has extended to countries including the U.S., Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Greece. Dr. Carmona’s work has impacted more than 20,000 students, 150 teachers, and dozens of researchers.