Faculty Vita

Barbara Wolf, Ph.D.

Academic Degrees

Professional Experience

Faculty load

Faculty Teaching

Selected Publications

Wolf, B. Not How to Think but a Way of Thinking. (1997). Teacher Education and Special Education. 75th Anniversary Edition, V. 19

Wolf, B. Setting Our Sights. Perceptions on Program Reform. (1997). Teacher Education and Special Education, 75th Anniversary Edition, V. 19

Hardman, M., Drew, C., Egan, M.W. & Wolf B. (1992). Human Exceptionality: Society, School and Family - Fourth Edition. Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster, Allyn and Bacon.

Wolf, B., Pratt, C. & Pruitt, P. (1992). Instructor's Edition. Human Exceptionality: Society, School and Family. Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster, Allyn and Bacon.

Wolf, B., Pratt, C. & Pruitt, P. (1992). Test Bank. Human Exceptionality: Society, School and Family. Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster, Allyn and Bacon.

Wolf, B. (1990). The assessment movement in higher education and implications for special education teacher preparation programs. Teacher Education and Special Education. 13 (3), 246-251.

Wolf, B., (1989). The nature of research and evaluation in children's museums. Some recommendations for determining generalizability. Visitor Behavior (Hand to Hand) 3 (1) 1,9.

Tymitz-Wolf, B.L. (1987). Assessment of the Mildly Handicapped Child. In Berdine, W., Education and Assessment in Special Education, Boston, Little Brown & Co.

Tymitz-Wolf, B.L. (1986). To make teacher education work. Teacher Education and Special Education. 9 (4) 162-165.

Tymitz-Wolf, B.L. (1984). Faculty Development: Concerns and considerations for effective programming. Teacher Education and Special Education, 7 (3) 119-131.

Tymitz-Wolf, B.L. (1984). An analysis of children's worries about mainstreaming. Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 19 (3) 157-168.

Funded Projects

1982 Modified Competency Based Course Development for Training Teachers of Children with Mild to Moderate Behavior Disorders. Post-doctoral Fellowship. Eli Lilly Endowment. (Funded, 1982-83).

1980 Media Development and Demonstration Project to Train Teachers of the Handicapped in Individualized Instruction. Renewal Request. (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, PROJECT DIRECTOR), Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (Funded, $140,000).

1979 A Media Development and Demonstration Project to Train Teachers of the Handicapped in Individualized Instruction. (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, PROJECT DIRECTOR), Bureau of Education for Handicapped (Funded,$125,000).

1978 Instructional Frame Games: An Innovative Instructional Technology for Training Teachers of Handicapped Children: A Development and Demonstration Project. (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, PROJECT DIRECTOR), Renewal Request, Bureau of Education for the Handicapped. (Funded, $125,000).

1977 Instructional Frame Games: An Innovative Instructional Technology for Training Teachers of Handicapped Children: A Proposed Media Development and Demonstration Project. (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, PROJECT DIRECTOR), Submitted to Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (Funded, $100,000).

1974 Classroom Observational Study of Teacher/Student-Teacher Verbal Discipline Modeling in Regular and Special Education Self-Contained Primary Classrooms. Student Research Grant. Funded, University of Illinois, College of Education.

1974 The Effects of Instructional Processes and Programs for Noncategorical Grouping of Handicapped Children in Open and Traditional Classrooms. Student Research Grant, Funded, University of Illinois, College of Education.

Conference Presentations

Invited Discussant and Planner: Assessment Conference on General Education.Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN. November, 1993.

Keynote: "Self-Esteem in Children: What's Design Got to Do with It?" Design for Children National Conference. Indiana University. August, 1993. (paper in preparation for publication)

The Role of Assessment in Institutional Effectiveness. University of Maryland. Keynote. (February, 1992).

For Example. Using Examples in Teaching...What Works, What Doesn't Work and Some Reasons Why. Vanderbilt University Chancellor's Lecture Series on Great Teaching. (January, 1992).

Association for Institutional Research: The Center for the Study of Higher Education andthe National Center for Teaching, Learning and Assessment. Invited as participant. Washington, D.C. (May, 1991).

Michigan Museums Association: Museum Evaluation for the Non-Expert. Lansing, MI. (June, 1991).

George Washington University 1991 Colloquium on Museum Learning. Invited as one of 26 nationally selected participants. American Association of Museums, Denver, CO. May, 1991 .

Assumptions and Strategies to Elicit Faculty Participation in Assessment: Experiences from Indiana University-Bloomington. Hudson-Mohawk Association of Colleges and Universities, Albany, NY. October, 1990.

Connecting Assessment and Diversity: Strategies Used for a Multi-Campus System. Second International Conference of Assessing Quality in Higher Education. St. Andrews University, Scotland. July, 1990.

Developing Assessment for a Large Research Institution. American Association of Higher Education Forum on Assessment, Washington, DC. June, 1990.

Honors/Awards

1999, 1998, and Selected: Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA) School of Education, Indiana 1997 University, Bloomington

1998 Named: Outstanding Contributor, Teacher Education and Special Education, Journal Year, 1997. Volume 19. 75th anniversary Edition

1991-present Selected: UNESCO Institute for Education: USA consultant representative on: production of learning in informal environments; evaluation and assessment

1996 Selected: one of eight national researchers, chosen on the basis of outstanding scholarship in the discipline, to delineate rationale for future directions in the area of Teacher Education. Council for Exceptional Childlren, Division of Teacher Education. Project directed by Associate Dean for Research and Development, University of Cincinnatti and Editor of Teacher Education and Special Education.

1996 Invited Contributor: (one of 8 nationally) to 75th Anniversary Edition of Teacher Education in Special Education, Fall 1997.

1996 Selected: Indiana University Higher Education Representative to City-University Leadership Program, Lexington, KY.

1996 Selected: Facul ty Keynote Speaker, Presidential Dinner, Indiana University Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association

1995 Named: Woman of the Year, Bloomington, IN. by: American Association of University Women; League of Women Voters; Bloomington Commission on the Status of Women; Business and Professional Women's Club; and, Network of Career Women

1994 Awarded: Teaching Fellowship. Indiana University Writing Center

1990-1993 Selected: Research Exchange Scholar. Swedish American Institute.

1991 Selected: Chancellor's Scholar: Distinguished Teaching. Vanderbilt University

1990, 1991 Nominee: to represent Indiana University, National Professor of the Year, Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).