About the Author

Sharon Shrock is professor of Instructional Design and Technology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale where she coordinates graduate programs in instructional design and technology. She is the former co-director of the Hewlett-Packard World Wide Test Development Center. She is a past president of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology’s Division of Instructional Development and has served on the editorial boards of most of the major academic journals in the instructional design field. She is the senior author of Criterion-Referenced Test Development.

Contributor (with William Coscarelli) to ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals - Available as article-length Fast Fundamentals whitepaper (PDF download): Training Evaluation Level 2: Learning-Five Essential Steps for Creating Your Tests and Two Cautionary Tales.