Terry Vendlinski

Terry Vendlinski, Ph.D., is co-director of assessment research and design in the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International. Vendlinski has extensive background in assessment design, development, implementation, and evaluation. He has experience with formative, diagnostic, and summative assessments at the classroom level and at the state and national level, including for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC).

Vendlinski has decades of classroom teaching experience, including C++ and Java programming for California State University, Sacramento and at MIT; math at the community college level; chemistry, math and computer programming at the secondary level; and algebra in middle school.

Vendlinski has practical educational policy experience as well. Most recently, he has concentrated on improving the ability of middle school math teachers to use data from formative assessments, developing computer gaming technology to serve a formative purpose, and using evidence-centered design to create math, ELA, and science assessments.

Education

• Ph.D., Technology, Management and Policy / Educational Assessment, MIT, 2001
• M.B.A, Operations Management, St. Mary’s University (San Antonio), 1986
• B.S., International Affairs / Public Policy, U.S. Air Force Academy, 1979

Professional Experience

• Co-Director, Assessment Research and Design, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (2012 – Present)
• Senior Researcher, CRESST, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (2003 – 2012)
• Mathematics Instructor, Developmental Mathematics, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA (2007 - 2012)
• Algebra Instructor, 8th Grade, St. Monica Elementary School, Santa Monica, CA (2002 - 2008)
• Research Scientist, IMMEX Labs, University  of California, Los Angeles, CA (2001 – 2003)
• Head Teaching Assistant, Problem Solving in Java / C / C++, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (1997 – 2001)
• Adjunct Professor, Introduction to Computer Programming in C / C++, California State University, Sacramento, CA (1993 – 1997)
• Math, Computer Science, and Chemistry Instructor / Department Chair, Christian Brothers High School, Sacramento, CA (1991 – 1997)

Current Projects

• Games and Assessments Project (Staff)
• An Application of Evidence Centered Design to States’ Large-scale Science Assessments (Staff)
• Development of Design Patterns and Task Templates for NAEP Science ICT (Leader)
• Evidence Centered Design for PARCC (Leader)

Past Projects

• Center for Computers and Technology in Schools (Leader)
• PowerSource: Assessments to Develop Proficiency in Algebra (Leader)
• Assessment Design and Delivery System (Leader)