Marcela is a PhD in Psychology. She works as a teacher in the Social Science Department at Javeriana University. She teaches developmental psychology,  educational psychology, research methods in psychology and motivation process in education. Her research interest  is focused on understand the self-regulated learning process in college students and its relation to teacher feedback process. She is also interested and has worked in research about metacognition in reading and writing; self-regulation of motivation in engineering students and teacher-students interaction in elementary and highs school students. About this, she is certified in the Classroom Assesment Scoryng System (CLASS, Pianta, Hamre & Mintz, 2008), which allowes her to observe and analyze teacher-student interaction in four domains: emotional support, classroom organization, pedagogical support, and student behavioral engagement.