Dr. Barkley’s contributions to ACUE’s Community of Professional Practice include:

• The Importance of Checking for Student Understanding

Her recent publications include:

• Interactive Lecturing: A Handbook for College Faculty (Jossey-Bass 2018)
• Learning Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty (Jossey-Bass 2016)

Barkley is a Professor of Music at Foothill College, Los Altos, California and Executive Director of the K. Patricia Cross Academy, a non-profit online platform that provides college faculty with access to free instructional modules that focus on improving college-level teaching and learning. In addition to her work with student engagement, Dr. Barkley is a classically trained pianist and studies American music from a multicultural perspective.

An author, scholar, musician, and educator, she has spent her career researching and writing about classroom teaching practices that transform both face-to-face and online classes so that instructors can meet the needs of diverse learners (https://www.collegeteachingtechniques.net). She is also a popular keynote speaker and workshop presenter (https://faculty2faculty.com).

Barkley earned her BA and MA from the University of California, Riverside. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and has worked closely with Berkeley’s Center for the Study of American Cultures in pioneering the study of American music from a multicultural perspective. For her work in this area, Dr. Barkley has received numerous awards, including being selected as a Carnegie Scholar in the discipline of Music and the California Professor of the Year.

Dr. Banta is Professor of Higher Education and Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Academic Planning and Evaluation at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Considered a pioneer in outcomes assessment in higher education, Banta has received ten national awards for her work in this field. Before moving to IUPUI in 1992, Banta was the founding director the Center for Assessment Research and Development at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Banta has developed and coordinated 30 national conferences and 15 international conferences on the topic of assessing quality in higher education. She has consulted with faculty and administrators in 47 US states, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates, and has by invitation addressed national conferences on outcomes assessment in Australia, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Lebanon, New Zealand, Scotland, Singapore, and Spain.

Banta has written or edited 20 published volumes on assessment, contributed 30 chapters to other published works, and written more than 300 articles and reports. She is the founding editor of Assessment Update, a bi-monthly periodical published since 1989 by Jossey-Bass publishers, San Francisco. Banta’s work in outcomes assessment has been recognized by, among others, the American Association for Higher Education, the American Productivity and Quality Center, the Association for Institutional Research, the National Council on Measurement in Education, and the National Consortium for Continuous Improvement in Higher Education. The American College Personnel Association has honored her with two awards.

Dr. Angelo’s contributions to ACUE’s Community of Professional Practice include:

• Tom Angelo Discusses Effective Teaching Practices With ACUE
• Techniques to Help Underprepared Students Learn More

Angelo is a clinical professor of Educational Innovation and Research in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education as well as the director of Educator Development at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy where he develops workshops and other resources to support the school’s PharmD curriculum. Angelo also collaborates on educational research and assessment projects and mentors junior faculty, fellows, and graduate students.

Over the past 30 years, Angelo has served as a faculty member, faculty developer, and academic administrator in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. He has taught Statistics, Research Methods, and Higher Education courses at institutions that include Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, Boston College, the University of Miami, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and La Trobe University in Australia. He has directed six university educational development centers—four of which he founded—and twice served as an Associate Provost. He has also consulted on teaching, learning, assessment, and curriculum design for more than 250 educational institutions and 65 associations and organizations. Angelo has delivered more than 90 higher education conference keynote addresses.

Angelo earned his BA in Government with honors and holds an MA in Political Science, both from California State University, Sacramento. He received an EdM in Applied Linguistics from Boston University and an EdD from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. He has authored or coauthored five books and more than 35 articles and chapters. His most successful publication, Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers, Second Edition, coauthored with K. Patricia Cross, has more than 100,000 copies in print.