PVC (Curriculum & Academic Planning)

Biographical Sketch

In July 2008, Tom Angelo was appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor (Curriculum and Academic Planning), Founding Director of the Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Centre, and Professor of Higher Education at La Trobe University. In 2009, he also became Director of La Trobe's Design for Learning Project, an ambitious four-year revision and redesign of the university's entire undergraduate curriculum.

 

Prior to joining La Trobe, Tom Angelo had served as an academic staff member, academic developer, academic manager and/or researcher at several US institutions including DePaul University, the University of Miami, the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), Boston College, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard University – and, from 2004-2008, at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

 

He earned his BA, with Honors, in Government from California State University at Sacramento, an MA in political science and a second Master’s in education from Boston University, and his doctorate from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

 

Tom Angelo’s best-known publication is Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for CollegeTeachers (with K. Patricia Cross, 1993), with more than 80,000 copies in print. A greatly revised 3rd edition of the book is due in 2012. Other publications include Classroom Research: Early Lessons from Success (1991), Classroom Assessment and Classroom Research: An Update on Uses, Approaches, and Research Findings (1998), and more than thirty articles and chapters. His current research projects focus on formative assessment, curriculum renewal and redesign, and research-led teaching.

 

He has consulted on teaching, assessment, and learning improvement in 18 countries, in all 50 of the United States, for more than 60 higher education associations/systems, and more than 250 postsecondary institutions. He has also served as keynote/featured speaker at more than 75 higher education conferences internationally. Some recent keynotes have been at the: 2011 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, 2010 Lilly Conference on College Teaching, 2010 Indiana Assessment Institute, and 2010 AACSB Assessment Conference.

 

Professor Angelo has held fellowships in Italy with the Fulbright Program (1983), in Portugal with the Gulbenkian Foundation (1978).  In 1998, he served as Visiting Scholar for the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) and, in 2007, as an Honorary Visiting Scholar with Australia’s Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.

 

A teacher, first and foremost, since 1979, Tom Angelo has taught high school students, undergraduate and postgraduate students, returning adults, and professional academic staff in a variety of institutions. He designed, coordinates and currently teaches in La Trobe's Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, a professional qualification for postsecondary teaching staff.