Division of Educational Leadership and Professional Services (DELPS)

(as of 1st semester AY 2025-2026)

EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION

Jerome T. Buenviaje

Associate Professor | Assistant Secretary for Curriculum and Teaching, Department of Education
jtbuenviaje@up.edu.ph

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Joel C. Javiniar

Assistant Professor | Dean, UP College of Education
jcjaviniar@up.edu.ph

Emmanuelle C. Manalang

Assistant Professor
ecmanalang@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications: 
    • MA in Education, Educational Administration, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • BA Philosophy, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, UP Diliman
  • Specialization:
    • Leadership and Management of Organizations; Planning and Evaluation; Human Resource Development; Whole-Child Education
  • Research Interests:
    • Succession Planning; Leadership Development; Educational Policy Review and Analysis; Educational Transformation

Lecturers

Ida Marie V. Escolano-Canton

Senior Lecturer
ivescolano@up.edu.ph

Marian Christine V. Patriarca

Senior Lecturer
mvpatriarca@up.edu.ph

Lourdes T. Nepomuceno

Professorial Lecturer
ltnepomuceno@up.edu.ph

Ethel Agnes P. Valenzuela

Professorial Lecturer
ethel@seameo.org

COUNSELOR EDUCATION

Jaclyn Marie L. Cauyan

Professor | Director, Office of Counseling and Guidance
jlcauyan@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • PhD in Education, Guidance, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • MA in Education, Guidance, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • BA Political Science, UP Manila
  • Specialization:
    • Guidance; Counseling women and children in difficult circumstances; Feminist counseling; Crisis counseling; Mental Health and psychosocial support
  • Research Interests:
    • Gender and sexuality; Queer-affirmative approaches; Queer and women’s studies; Resilience; Mental health and psychosocial support; Trauma; Career development; Career counseling,
  • Extension Service Activities:
    • Trainings/talks on MHPSS, women’s and queer issues, mental health
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Marie Grace A. Gomez

Professor | Director, Diliman Learning Resource Center
magomez1@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • PhD in Education, Special Education, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • PhD in Education, Guidance, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • MA in Education, Guidance, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • BA Political Science, UP Diliman
  • Specialization:
    • Guidance; Special Education; Counseling persons with disabilities and other special groups under institutionalized care; Development of guidance programs; Career counseling; Standardized testing and psychological assessment; Scale development; Development of student personnel services and programs
  • Research Interests:
    • Program development, psychosocial support services; Abuse prevention and comprehensive sexuality education for persons with disabilities; Scale development
  • Ongoing Studies/Research Projects:
    • Comprehensive Sexuality Education for Persons with Disabilities
    • Academic Concerns of Tertiary-Level Student Athletes
    • Academic Concerns of University Students
    • Development of GMRC/Values Education textbooks and teacher’s guides for Trinitas Publishing House
    • Development of Contemporary Issues textbook and teacher’s guide for Trinitas Publishing House
    • Psychosocial Concerns of Law Students
  • Extension Service Activities:
    • Assessment of student athletes for the Special Palarong Pambansa (in collaboration with the Divisions of Manila, San Juan, and Valenzuela)
    • Cybersafe Massive Open and Online Course for Teachers (in collaboration with DICT)
    • Resource person in various projects in public and private institutions

Lorelei R. Vinluan

Associate Professor
lcrv@up.edu.ph

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Louie P. Cagasan Jr.

Assistant Professor
lpcagasan@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • MA Psychology, UP Diliman
    • BA Psychology, UP Diliman-Extension Program in Pampanga
  • Specialization:
    • Educational and Psychological Assessment; Personality; Use of Assessment Data for Teaching and Learning
  • Research Interests:
    • Test Development; Formative Assessment; 21st Century Skills; Social Desirability; Spirituality and Dark Triad of Personality
  • Ongoing Studies/Research Projects:
    • Development of the Assessment of the Evaluation of the MATATAG Curriculum Pilot Implementation
  • Extension Service Activities:
    • Research Fellow (Assessment Curriculum and Technology Research Centre, ACTRC); Trainings on Assessment

Daren S. Ngadima

Assistant Professor
dsngadima@up.edu.ph

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  • Specialization:
    • Educational Research and Evaluation
  • Research Interests:
    • Qualitative, Mixed Methods Research, and Evaluation Research

Teodora M. Salubayba

Associate Professor
tmsalubayba@up.edu.ph

Kevin Carl P. Santos

Associate Professor | Director, Bureau of Education Assessment, Department of Education
kpsantos1@up.edu.ph | kpsantos1@outlook.up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
    • PhD Statistics, School of Statistics, UP Diliman
    • Visiting Research Scholar, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
    • MS Statistics, School of Statistics, UP Diliman
    • BS Statistics, School of Statistics, UP Diliman
  • Specialization:
    • Educational Statistics; Psychometric Methods and Applications; Survey Sampling; Multilevel Modeling in Education; Test and Scale Development
  • Research Interests:
    • Cognitive diagnosis modeling and its applications in education and psychology; Person fit analysis; Analysis of Large-Scale Assessment Data; Ranked Set Sampling; Computer Adaptive Testing; Test Equating Methods
  • Ongoing Studies/Research Projects:
    • Conditional Dependency in Cognitive Diagnosis Modeling (PhD Incentive Award)
    • Improving Attribute Classification in Cognitive Diagnosis Computerized Adaptive Testing in the Presence of Differential Item Functioning (Enhance Creative Work and Research Grant)
  • Extension Service Activities:
    • Senior Research Fellow / Co-convenor (Assessment, Curriculum, and Technology Research Centre) [Technical Assistance to DepEd’s Bureau of Education Assessment]
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Alvin D. Tenorio

Assistant Professor
adtenorio2@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • PhD in Education, Research and Evaluation, College of Education, UP Diliman
  • Specialization:
    • Educational Measurement; Social Research Methods; Mathematics Education
  • Research Interests:
    • Assessment of Learning; Mixed Methods Research; Cognitive Diagnosis Modeling; Mathematics Education

Lecturers

Janet Lynn M. Balagtey

Senior Lecturer
jmbalagtey@up.edu.ph

Armi S. Lantano

Senior Lecturer
aslantano@up.edu.ph

Maribel R. Gaite

Senior Lecturer

Randolf S. Sasota

Senior Lecturer
rssasota@up.edu.ph

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Saddam C. Bazer

Assistant Professor
scbazer@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • PhD in Education, Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (focus on ICT in Education), Shaanxi Normal University, China
    • MA in Education, Educational Technology, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • Bachelor of Elementary Education, English, College of Education, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology
  • Research Interests:
    • Educational Technology; Curriculum; Education in Emergencies (EiE); Teacher Training; Literacy; Peace Education; Generative AI in Education; Children and Youth Empowerment; Social Impact
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Jon Paul F. Maligalig

Assistant Professor
jfmaligalig@up.edu.ph

Elenita N. Que

Associate Professor | Chair, Division of Educational Leadership & Professional Services
enque@up.edu.ph

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  • Educational Qualifications:
    • PhD in Education, ICT Education, Hiroshima University, Japan
    • Digital Literacy Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
    • MA in Education, Educational Technology, College of Education, UP Diliman
    • BS Development Communication, UP Los Baños
  • Specialization:
    • Learning Experience Design; Comparative Education; Educational Technology; AI in Education; eLearning systems
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Lecturer

Gerson Marvin M. Abesamis

Senior Lecturer
gmabesamis1@up.edu.ph