Ken Plummer PhD is the associate director of academic assessment and the consultant to faculty and administrators in the college of computational, mathematical and physical sciences with more than 15 years of experience in university‑level program and course design. Prior to this work, he was the manager of educational research, evaluation, assessment, and seminar instruction with Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. He has co‑authored over 40 publications with faculty at BYU and other universities on helping novices develop expert‑level performance. Ken is a co‑author of the Decision‑Based Learning pedagogy and its accompanying software. He has delivered workshops and presentations across Asia, South America, North America, and Europe on learning design, expert‑performance development, and instructional innovation. He currently is working with a concept called disciplinary patterns of engagement (DPE) that could form the blueprint for creating AI assessments and individualized learning that simulate the professional/scholarship world.
Research Interests
- Decision-Based Learning
- Educational Religiosity and Spirituality Measures
- Large scale cognitive assessment
- Affective assessment
- Performance assessment
- Alternative assessment
- Instructional design best practices
- Teaching presentation
- Rater-mediated assessment
Education
- Ph.D., Instructional Psychology and Technology, Brigham Young University, April 2008
- M.A.E., Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Utah, Aug 1999
- BA. Spanish Translation, Brigham Young University