Bio

Dr. Marcinkowski is a Full Professor and Program Chair for Education and Interdisciplinary Studies Programs in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Florida Tech. Since 1992, he has served as the Acopian Chair of the Graduate Program in Environmental Education. Much of his teaching and research has focused on assessment in the areas of environmental education, environmental literacy, and environmental behavior. He served on the research team for the National Environmental Literacy Assessment (NELA) Project funded by U.S. EPA and NOAA (2005-2015), supported the assessments of environmental literacy in a number of countries (Korea, Israel, Turkey, China, and Saudi Arabia), and served on the NSF-supported team that developed a framework for PISA and other large-scale assessments of environmental literacy (Hollweg et al., 2011). For 17 years, he taught courses in testing and alternative assessment in Florida Tech’s pre-service teacher education program, and he continues to teach the graduate-level course in testing and assessment. His interest in program evaluation began with his M.S. thesis, which focused on program evaluation for program improvement (1984). Since then, he has engaged in evaluation work for NSF grants at Florida Tech in Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering, NSF projects administered by the Missouri Botanical Garden, and programs sponsored by Project Learning Tree, Project WILD, USFWS, the Florida Advisory Council on Environmental Education, and the NH Charitable Trust, among others. He has served on the Editorial Board for The Journal of Environmental Education (1983-1996 and 2010- ) and Environmental Education Research (2002-  ), and has been active within the North American Association for Environmental Education, serving as Chair of its Research Commission (1988-1993), on its NCATE Standards Writing Team (2004-2007), and in its program to develop and accredit State Environmental Education Certification Programs (2005-2018).