Jesus Alonso Tapia. He received his doctorate in Philosophy, branch of Psychology, at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1983. He is currently Professor of Psychology at the same university, where he has worked since 1977. His teaching task focuses on the subjects of Psychological Assessment, Educational Guidance and Knowledge Assessment. He has also taught numerous courses on the topics of his specialty and, in particular, on motivation, to professors from most Spanish universities and from other educational levels. In research he has worked fundamentally on topics related to motivation, reading comprehension , the teaching of thinking strategies, and the evaluation of learning and attitudes. He has received numerous research awards, including, in 1997, the First National Prize for Educational Research awarded by the Ministry of Education and Culture. He has published more than 120 chapters and research and dissemination articles, and twenty books, among which it is worth mentioning Teach to think? New technologies for compensatory education (1987), Motivation and learning in the classroom: How to teach thinking (1991), Read; Understanding and Thinking: Developing Assessment Strategies and Techniques (1992), Motivating Adolescents: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention (1992), What is the best way to motivate my students? Analysis of what teachers know, believe and do about it (1992), Educational Guidance: Theory, evaluation and intervention (1995), Motivate for learning: Theory and strategies (1997), Diagnostic psicopedagogic i evaluació curricular (1997), Assessment of knowledge and its acquisition (3 volumes, 1997). Some of his books have been translated into English, Portuguese and Catalan.