Paul R. Hernandez, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture and the Department of Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University. Dr. Hernandez teaches graduate courses in measurement, research design, and statistics.

With funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF), Dr. Hernandez and his team are actively engaging with students in their research. They study evidence-based interventions to support student self-regulated learning, motivation, and identity development. More specifically, his research focuses on how mentorship, mastery experiences, and novel interventions promote learning strategies and the regulation of motivation and identity development, which are mechanisms to persist in higher education–particularly for students from historically underrepresented/excluded groups in STEM. His work has been published in Educational Psychology outlets, such as Contemporary Educational Psychology, the Journal of Educational Psychology, and the Journal of Experimental Education, as well as high-impact STEM Education outlets, such as BioScience, CBE-Life Sciences Education, and PLoS ONE.