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William C. Coscarelli Biography

Experience

Bill graduated from Indiana University in 1977 with a Ph.D. in Instructional Systems. He then joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in their Learning Resources office. He has spent sabbaticals as a visiting scholar at the National Center for Vocational Education at Ohio State, a lecturer in Holland, England, and Ireland, and most recently at Bonn, Cologne, and Cairo. He is currently teaching full-time in the Instructional Design specialization at SIUC's department of Curriculum & Instruction where he is now a Professor and the former Co-director of the Hewlett-Packard World Wide Test Development Center.

Service

Bill has been elected as president of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology's Division for Instructional Development, appointed as founding editor of Performance Improvement Quarterly, and as the first Vice-President of Publications for the International Society for Performance Improvement. He also served as president of ISPI. [ISPI, formerly the National Society for Performance and Instruction, is an international association dedicated to improving performance in the workplace. Founded in 1962, ISPI represents over 11,000 local and national members throughout North America and over 40 countries worldwide.]

Publications

He is author of the Decision Making Inventory which is published in the US and has been translated for work in other countries. The work in decision-making has been used extensively in Ohio State’s freshman career development program as well as in corporate sales training programs. He is also co-author of The Guided design guidebook, and Criterion-referenced test development for corporate training: Technical and legal issues. He has over 100 presentations in his career and more than 60 articles.

Awards

In 1991 he won the outstanding book award for Criterion-Referenced Test Development from both ISPI and AECT's Division of Instructional Development. In 1992 he was co-recipient of the L.C. Larson Indiana University Alumni Award for "outstanding leadership in instructional systems". In 1996 he received ISPI’s Distinguished Service Award.