Timothy S. Brophy

Keynote topic: Fairness and Equity in Assessment

Timothy S. Brophy is Director of Institutional Assessment at the University of Florida and Professor of Music Education. He has developed and implements the University of Florida Assessment System that is a model for comprehensive, decentralized research institutions, and his work was recognized with the University of Florida’s 2020 Excellence in Assessment designee by the AAC&U, the APLU, and NILOA. Dr. Brophy has served as the University of Florida’s accreditation liaison since 2000, and in December 2020 he was awarded the Carol A. Luthman Meritorious Service Award by the Southern Association of College and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). Dr. Brophy has extensive experience with test development and data collection processes and knows large-scale assessment structures and processes, policy, and state and national assessment issues. He has taught graduate courses in measurement and evaluation, and possesses working knowledge of psychometrics, classic test theory, and item response theory.

Prior to his appointment as Director, he was Assistant Dean for Research, Technology, and Administrative Affairs in the College of the Arts and a member of the music education faculty in the School of Music. He has authored three books, published numerous articles and book chapters, seven volumes of selected papers from the International Symposia on Assessment in Music Education (ISAME, 2007-2019), and is sole editor and contributing author of the two-volume Oxford Handbook on Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education. Dr. Brophy has conducted workshop sessions and conference presentations throughout the United States, and in Australia, Canada, China, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Holland, New Zealand, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, and Taiwan.