Peter Airasian is a professor of education
in the Educational Research Department
of the Lynch School of Education at
Boston College. His main responsibility is
instructing pre- and in-service teachers in
classroom assessment. He received his undergraduate
degree in chemistry from
Harvard College. He undertook graduate
studies at the University of Chicago and
attained his Ph.D. in evaluation and assessment
there. In addition to his work in
higher education, he has also taught high
school chemistry and biology.
Dr. Airasian is the author of Ordering
Theory and Methods (with W. Bart and D.
Krus, 1975), Minimal Competency Testing
(1979, with G. Madaus and J. Pendulla); Classroom Assessment, Concepts & Applications
(fifth edition, 1997), Assessment
in the Classroom (second edition, 1996)
Education Research: Competencies for
Analysis & Application (seventh edition,
with Lorrie Gay, 2002), Teacher Self-
Evaluation Tool Kit (with Arlen
Gullickson, 1997), and School Effectiveness:
A Reassessment of the Evidence
(with G. Madaus and T. Kellaghan, 1980).
Dr. Airasian is extensively published in
juried journals, mainly on the topic of
classroom assessment, and has numerous
papers to his credit in the field of educational
evaluation.
Peter Airasian received the Jason
Millman Award at the National
Evaluation Institute in Colorado
Springs, Colorado. |
