Biography

Prof. John Paul C. Vallente is currently a graduate student of PhD in Education – Research and Evaluation at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, College of Education. He earned the degree, Master of Arts in English Language and Literature Teaching at the Ateneo de Manila University-Loyola Schools as a CHED Faculty Development Program Fellow. Additionally, he completed the academic requirements in the Master of Arts in Education program of the Mariano Marcos State University, the same institution in which he presently renders his services as an Assistant Professor in the tertiary level. He handles courses in language and literature, research, and professional education. At present, Prof. Vallente is the Research Coordinator of the MMSU-College of Teacher Education. He has published studies on multidisciplinary fields, such as pre-service language teacher identity, multilingual education, pro-environmental citizenship, food safety education, instructional materials development and validation, and educational research and evaluation. Most of this works appear on peer-reviewed international journals, indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. He is currently a reviewer of the Teaching and Teacher Education, a Q1 Scopus-indexed journal under the Elsevier publishing company. Prof. Vallente is now working on a study funded by the General Appropriations Act of MMSU, which examines how the admission policies of CHED aligns with the main purpose of Senior High School education. He is also a part of the research project which explores the local knowledge system in the Ilocos Region, funded by the Commission on Higher Education and the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.