DR. ROGER FARR
CHANCELLORS’ PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION
DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR INNOVATION IN ASSESSMENT AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Dr. Roger Farr, Chancellor's Professor of Education and Director of the Center for Innovation and Assessment at Indiana University, is a former president of the International Reading Association. A teacher of kindergarten through graduate school, Dr. Farr has written numerous assessments, including both standardized tests and performance assessments. Among the standardized tests he has written or edited are the lowa Silent Reading Tests and the Metropolitan Achievement Tests. Performance assessments he has developed include the Language Arts Performance Assessments. His most recent book is Portfolio and Performance Assessment: Helping Students Evaluate Their Progress as Readers and Writers.

In 1984, the IRA honored Dr. Farr with the William S. Gray Citation for outstanding lifetime contributions to the teaching of reading. In the same year, he was elected to the IRA Reading Hall of Fame, and in 1988 he was selected by the IRA as the Outstanding Reading Teacher Educator.

Dr. Farr is a senior author of Signatures and Treasury of Literature, K-8 reading programs from Harcourt Brace School Publishers, and he also serves as a special consultant to Harcourt Brace and Holt Rinehart, and Winston, Inc. on assessment and measurement. He received his B.S. in English Education, his M.S. in Secondary English Education, and his Ed.D. in Reading and Educational Psychology from the State University of New York.