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Sharon A. Shrock Biography

Experience

Sharon graduated from Indiana University in 1978 with a doctorate in Instructional Systems Technology. She was on the faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University before moving to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where she is currently a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction as well as the Coordinator for the Instructional Design and Technology Programs. She specializes in instructional design and program evaluation and has been an evaluation consultant to international corporations, school districts, and Federal instructional programs. She is the former Co-director of the Hewlett-Packard World Wide Test Development Center.

Service

Sharon is a past president of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology’s Division of Instructional Development. She was a member of the International Society for Performance Improvement’s (formerly the National Society for Performance and Instruction) Senior Advisory Panel and has served on the editorial boards of most of the major academic journals in her field.

Publications

She is senior author of Criterion-Referenced Test Development and has written extensively in the field of testing and evaluation. With over 100 presentations in her career and more than 50 articles she has seen her research and evaluation work published in major instructional design and technology journals including Educational Communications and Technology Journal, Performance Improvement Quarterly, and the Journal of Educational Computing Research.

Awards

In 1991 she won the Outstanding Book award for Criterion-referenced Test Development from AECT’s Division of Instructional Development and from the National Society for Performance and Instruction. She also won ISPI’s Outstanding Performance Improvement Quarterly article. In 1992 she was co-recipient of Indiana University's L.C. Larson Alumni Award for "outstanding leadership in instructional systems." She was the 1992 recipient of SIUC’s Outstanding Contribution to Graduate and Professional Education Award. In 1994 she received the SIUC College of Education Teacher of the Year Award.