Current roles and responsibilities at the center include:

• direction of University assessment activities and coordination of 9 faculty and 3 support staff
• coordinate development of general education, all academic programs, and student affairs assessment planning and instrumentation
• participate in University Academic Program Review process
• write grants and seek other sources of external funding to advance the mission of the Center
• represent the Center on University and external assessment committees
• design and conduct validation studies
• serve as consultant to academic departments and assessment committees

Courses frequently taught include:

• Assessment Methods and Instrument Design
• Assessment Consultation
• Assessment Practicum
• Assessment Internship

• Ed.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1989)
  Concentration: Educational Research, Evaluation, and Planning, minor in Applied Mathematical Statistics
• M.A., California State University, Chico (1978)
• Concentration: Counseling Psychology
• B.A., California State University, Chico (1976)
  Concentration: Psychology

Sundre, D. L. & Cabe, H., L. (2007). James Madison University: The Human Community.  In M. Bresciani (Ed.) Assessing General Education: Good Practice Case Studies.  Anker Publishing Company, Inc.

Sundre, D. L. (2007, June). Working toward an Institute-Wide Assessment Program. An invited keynote address for the Pennsylvania Assessment Summit. Kutztown University: Kutztown, PA

Sundre, D. L. & Miller, B. J. (2006, October). Advancing faculty engagement in direct measures of student learning: Quantitative and Scientific Reasoning. A presentation and poster session at the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Indiana.

Sundre, D. L. (2006, August).  Institutional Assessment: An Invitation to Engage. An invited presentation to the staff and faculty of the Albany College of Pharmacy.

Sundre, D. L. (2006, August).  Academic Program Assessment. An invited presentation to the faculty of the Albany College of Pharmacy.

Sundre, D. L. (2006, April). Assessment in higher education—Invited symposium. Organizer and moderator of Invited Session for the National Council on Measurement in Education. San Francisco, CA.

Sundre, D. L. (2006, April). Assessment in higher education—Invited symposium. Organizer and moderator of Invited Session for the National Council on Measurement in Education. San Francisco, CA.

Anderson, R. D. & Sundre, D. L. (2005). Assessment partnership: A model for collaboration between two-year and four-year institutions. Assessment Update, 17(5), 8-16.

Sundre, D. L. (2005). A pathway for an institution-wide assessment program: Are we there? Volume IV: What works, what matters, what lasts. Project Kaleidoscope. Retrieved from http://www.pkal.org/documents/InstitutionWideAssessment.cfm on April 18, 2006.

Sundre, D. L. & Miller, B. J. (2005, November). Continued refinement of an assessment instrument: JMU’s Scientific and Quantitative Reasoning Tests. Presented to the 2005 Virginia Assessment Group. Virginia Beach, VA.

Sundre, D. L. (2005, October). Building  your assessment village. Workshop for the 2005 Assessment Institute in Indianapolis. Indianapolis, IN.

Sundre, D. L. (2005, October). Assessment: An invitation to engage. Keynote address delivered to the faculty of Moraine Valley Community College as part of their annual College Learning Day. Palos Hills. IL.

Sproles, K., Hazard, G., Murphy, C., Amato, H., Wise, S., Sundre, D., & Pastor, D. (2005, October). Pedagogy and assessment: General education assessment at James Madison University. A panel discussion presented to the 2005 Association for General and Liberal Studies and the Association for Integrative Studies Joint National Conference. Alexandria, VA.

Stoloff, M., Apple, K., Barron, K.E., Reis-Bergen, M.J., & Sundre, D.L. (2004). Seven goals for effective program assessment. In D. Dunn, C. Mehrotra, & J. Halonen (Eds.) Measuring Up: Assessment Challenges and Practices for Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Sundre, D. L. (2004). Communication, communication, communication: Connecting assessment to enhancing student learning. Volume IV: What works, what matters, and what lasts. http://www.pkal.org/template2.cfm?c_id=1011. downloaded February 2, 2004.

Sundre, D. L. & Kitsantas, A. L. (2004). An exploration of the psychology of the examinee: Can examinee self-regulation and test-taking motivation predict consequential and non-consequential test performance? Contemporary Educational Psychology, 29 (1), 6-26.

Sundre, D. L. (2003). The Academic Skills Inventory: A measure of skills experience. Assessment Update, 15, (4), 8-9.

Sundre, D. L. (2003). [Review of the book Building a Scholarship of Assessment]. Teacher's College Record, 105, 7, 1192-1196.

DeMars, C. L., Sundre, D. L., & Wise, S. L. (2002).  Standard setting: A systematic approach to interpreting student learning.  Journal of General Education, 51, 1-20.

Sundre, D. L. & Moore, D. L. (2002). The Student Opinion Scale: A measure of examinee motivation.  Assessment Update, 14 (1), 8-9.

Couch, J. V. & Sundre, D. L. (2001). Legal Attitudes Scale: A factor analytic study.  North American Journal of Psychology,3 (2), 309-320.

Sundre, D. L. (2001). Review of the test instrument Career Development Inventory (CDI) (pp.323-330). In J. T. Kapes,. & E. A. Whitfield (Eds.), A counselor's guide to career assessment instruments (4th ed.), Alexandria, VA: National Career Development Association.