João Marôco, Ph.D. (Washington State University, 1998), is a Full Professor at Universidade Lusófona and a specialist in Statistics and Research Methods. A consultant for the World Bank and the Education Statistics Initiative, he served as a board member of IAVE, I.P., where he led large-scale educational assessment studies (PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS, ICILS). With over 51,000 citations (Google Scholar H=79, i10=333), he ranks among the top 2% of the world’s most cited scientists (Stanford/Elsevier). Author of four books and more than 450 peer-reviewed articles, he lectures globally on Statistics and Education and frequently collaborates with the Portuguese media, being a prominent voice in psychometric and educational assessment.
