Biography

Alma Boutin-Martinez, Ph.D., serves as Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness and Continuous Improvement and the WSCUC Accreditation Liaison Officer (ALO). In these roles, Dr. Boutin-Martinez oversees and supports, instructional design and delivery; learning outcomes; course evaluations; program reviews; and accreditation self-studies; regulatory reporting; state authorization; institutional research; and curricular planning. Dr. Boutin-Martinez provides leadership and support to ensure the high quality and integrity of Fielding’s academic programs.

Dr. Boutin-Martinez has an M.A. in Psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Boutin-Martinez worked as Fielding’s Senior Institutional Research Analyst, providing data and analyses to support program evaluation, institutional and program accreditation, learning assessment, and institutional decision-making. Before joining Fielding Graduate University, she worked as a researcher for the Fullerton Longitudinal Study (FLS), an ongoing four-decade study of human development from infancy to adulthood. Dr. Boutin-Martinez also conducted educational program evaluation research for the University of California Evaluation Center (UCEC). In addition, she worked as an Instructional Design Consultant at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she provided guidance and support to faculty and teaching assistants in the Learning Management System (Moodle).

She has published research on resilience, parent-child interactions, academic intrinsic motivation, evaluation and assessment of online learning, and student trajectories into higher education.