Ken joined the Center for Teaching and Learning after working five years developing classroom and large-scale assessments for a Church department. He also developed many surveys designed to evaluate programs, personnel, products, and more. He periodically co-teaches graduate courses in quantitative research and has taught several courses in the BYU College of Religious Education.
Currently, he serves as the Associate Director of Academic Support, where he focuses on supporting faculty in creating culminating, holistic, authentic, and scalable program- and course-level assessments that prepare students to make powerful contributions post-graduation. In addition, he works at integrating such assessments into a backward design framework that champions student’s taking control of their own learning.
He and his colleagues at CTL and several departments in education and physical and mathematical sciences developed an innovative teaching approach called Decision-Based Learning (DBL). This approach helps students develop critical thinking patterns possessed by experts. Ken has occasionally conducted DBL workshops at academic conferences and universities in the U.S., Asia, and Latin America. He speaks Spanish fluently. His wife is from Perú, and they have three children.
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