Banta, Trudy W.

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BANTA, Trudy W.

BANTA, Trudy W. American. Genres: Education. Career: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, special assistant to the chancellor, 1979-82, assistant professor to professor of education, 1979-92, research professor at Learning Research Center, 1986-89, director of National Assessment Resource Center, 1986-89, founding director of Center for Assessment Research and Development, 1989-92; Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, professor of higher education and vice chancellor for planning and institutional improvement, 1992-. Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, guest faculty member; conference speaker and workshop presenter in the US and elsewhere. Publications: (with C. Palomba) Assessment Essentials, 1999. EDITOR & CONTRIBUTOR: Performance Funding in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of Tennessee's Experience, 1986; Implementing Outcomes Assessment: Promise and Perils, 1988; Making a Difference: Outcomes of a Decade of Assessment in Higher Education, 1993; (with V.M.H. Borden) Using Performance Indicators to Guide Strategic Decision Making, 1994; Building a Scholarship of Assessment, 2002. Contributor to books and professional journals. Address: AO 140, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 355 N Lansing St, Indianapolis, IN 46202-2896, U.S.A.