Diane Stephens

Diane Stephens is the Swearingen Chair of Education at the University of South Carolina, where she conducts research on assessment and decision making, teachers as learners, and the impact of large-scale professional development efforts. She led the smaller scale, three-year-long professional development effort with which the authors of the case studies in this book were involved. This is her second edited book with NCTE; the first, with Jennifer Story, was Assessment as Inquiry: Learning the...See more

Diane Stephens is the Swearingen Chair of Education at the University of South Carolina, where she conducts research on assessment and decision making, teachers as learners, and the impact of large-scale professional development efforts. She led the smaller scale, three-year-long professional development effort with which the authors of the case studies in this book were involved. This is her second edited book with NCTE; the first, with Jennifer Story, was Assessment as Inquiry: Learning the Hypothesis-Test Process (1999). See less