Carme Viladrich is Associate Professor in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She specializes in quantitative psychological methods, and her research has been funded from the Spanish Government and the European Comunity. She is editor of the methodology section of the scientific journal “Revista de Psicologia del Deporte”, and director of the psychometric team who developed and maintain SIMTEST, a computer based test of ability in foreign languages.