{"id":10178,"date":"2025-05-30T10:32:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T08:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/it-u.at\/?post_type=team&#038;p=10178"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:55:10","slug":"mark-lester-garcia","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/it-u.at\/en\/persons\/team\/mark-lester-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Lester Garcia\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short bio:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark Lester B. Garcia is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Ateneo de Manila University and a PhD candidate in Mathematics Education. His research focuses on mathematics education, large-scale assessments, metacognition, and psychometrics. 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