Dr. Angelo Collins was born in Chicago, Illinois. She earned a bachelor of science degree from Marian College of Fond du Lac, and a master of science degree from Michigan State University. Angelo was awarded her PhD at the University of Wisconsin. Her dissertation was entitled "Strategic Knowledge of Experts Solving Transmissions Genetics Problems."
Angelo has spent her entire adult life engaged in science education. She taught high school science for 15 years. As a practicing teacher she served as a cooperating teacher for prospective teachers.
From 1996 until June, 2000, she was an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College. Angelo is the current Director of the INTASC (Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium) Science Standards Setting and Portfolio Development Projects.
From 1988 to 1990, Angelo was Director of the Teacher Assessment Project at Stanford University. Under the leadership of Dr. Lee Shulman, she worked with a team of researchers, teachers and consultants to inform the deliberations of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards by designing and administering alternative modes of assessment for experienced teachers.
Angelo directed Science FEAT (Science For Early Adolescence Teachers) while she was at Florida State University from 1992 to 1996. Science FEAT was a three-year teacher-enhancement project for middle grades teachers of science which provided them opportunities to learn more science and more about teaching. Science FEAT teachers did both science and education research. Science FEAT was recognized as an Innovative Program n Education by the Association for Education of Teachers of Science.
From 1993 to 1995, Angelo was the Director of the National Committee on Science Education Standards and Assessment at the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, in Washington, DC. It was principally her effort in coordinating hundreds of participants nationwide, and thousands of responses, that produced the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1995).
Angelo has authored scores of books, monographs, book chapters and articles in refereed journals including National Science Education Standards: Looking backward and forward (1997) in the Elementary School Journal and Performance-based biology teacher assessment: Promises and pitfalls (1993) in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching. She also has served on numerous national and state committees that address issues in science education.
She has served on the Editorial Boards of Science Education, the Journal of Science Teacher Education and Editorial Board for the Journal of Research in Science Teaching. She was Chair of the Advisory Board for BioQuest for ten years. Angelo is currently the Co-Editor of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.
She received the Alumni Achievement Award from the College of Education at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Edgewood College. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1994 and was a visiting Fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She also is a member of Sigma Xi, the National Association for Research in Science Teaching and the American Educational Research Association. Angelo can be reached at angelo.collins@kstf.org