Joan Littlefield Cook
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Director of Academic Assessment
Wisconsin
Joan Littlefield Cook is the Director of Academic Assessment at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She is a professor and former chair of the Psychology Department. She has been involved in assessment at the department, college, university, and system levels through her career, with special emphasis on assessing critical thinking. She is also a frequent facilitator of campus faculty development sessions. Joan's research focuses on strategy development, and she has co-authored four textbooks and numerous instructional materials. She earned her MS and PhD degrees from Vanderbilt University.