Thomas A. Angelo

Thomas A. Angelo, EdD, is an internationally recognized scholar of teaching, learning, assessment, and faculty development in higher education. Over a career spanning more than four decades, he has served as a university faculty member, faculty developer, educational researcher, and academic administrator in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. He has held roles such as founding director of the Academic Development Center at Boston College and directed centers for teaching, learning, and assessment at institutions including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, La Trobe University in Melbourne, Victoria University of Wellington, the University of Akron, and Boston College. Angelo earned his BA with Honors in Government from California State University, Sacramento, two master’s degrees (in political science and education) from Boston University, and a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Angelo is best known as co‑author, with K. Patricia Cross, of Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers, first published in 1988 with a widely used second edition in 1993 and more than 100,000 copies in print. His work on classroom assessment has popularized formative feedback methods such as the minute paper, muddiest point, concept maps, and background knowledge probes in college and university teaching. In 2024 he authored the substantially revised third edition