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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.

 

Prior to joining La Trobe, he 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 most recently, four years 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 2009. 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.

 

Tom Angelo has consulted on teaching, assessment, and learning improvement in eighteen countries, in all 50 of the United States, for more than 60 higher education associations/ systems, and in 250 postsecondary institutions. He has also served as keynote speaker at more than 75 higher education conferences internationally.

 

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 graduate students, returning adults, and professional academic staff in a variety of institutions. Most recently, to learn firsthand about the student academic experience at La Trobe, he led weekly tutorials for a course in Australian Foreign Policy.