Girlie Delacruz is an experienced applied research scientist with over 18 years in the areas of assessment, learning, education, cognitive and learning science, and developmental psychology. Her primary research goals lie at the intersection of theories of assessment and learning in educational, training, and military contexts, with a focus on the design and use of various forms of technology including computers, web and mobile-based applications, video games, and sensor-based networks. In the area of assessment, her research focuses on issues of validity, effective and efficient assessment design, and the use of computational models to support formative assessment and adaptive learning. She is currently a Senior Research Associate at LRNG where she continues her research on the use of games for learning and assessment and applying her expertise to direct the assessment and badging work to help connect underserved populations to jobs and opportunities.

Dr. Delacruz has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and has written book chapters on the topic of technology in education. Because of expertise in learning and assessment technologies, she has been invited to sit on Small Business Innovation Research review panels in the area of mobile gaming for the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. Delacruz is an MacArthur Foundation/ETS Edmund W. Gordon Fellow–awarded to emerging scholars concerned with the impact of new technologies, recent advances in the learning sciences, and the broader impact of assessment and learning on society in the 21st century.