BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT, 
David Alan Gilman, Ph. D.

David A. Gilman was Lotus Delta Coffman Distinguished Professor of Education of Indiana State University.  He was Editor of Contemporary Education from 1990 to 1998 and the editor of the Journal for the Liberal Arts and Sciences.  He was also a collaborative researcher and an educational consultant.  He earned his bachelor's degree from Indiana State Teachers College, his master's degree from Michigan State University and his Ph. D. from Pennsylvania State University.  He completed post doctoral studies at Indiana University, Indiana State University, Georgia State University, and the University of Missouri. 

He taught classes in teaching methods; educational research; and assessment in the School of Education and Advanced Expository Writing and Editing Professional Journals in the English Department. He also taught classes in the departments of Educational Administration, Library Science, Educational and School Psychology, Special Education, and University Studies.  He also taught classes in classroom management and research analysis at Oakland City University. He authored over 500 articles and research reports and has conducted collaborative research projects or served as a research consultant for over 450 agencies and school systems.

            He served as an educational consultant for the Governor of Indiana, the Indiana Legislature, the Indiana Department of Education, the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), and the National Science Foundation.  He was a faculty member of the research faculty of the National Institutes for School Administrators of the NASSP and the National Academy of School Executives of the AASA.  His principal areas of research are classroom management, class size reduction, competency testing, computer-assisted instruction, staff development, total quality management, and reading comprehension.  He was a visiting professor at Western Carolina University, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, and Ivy Tech College and served as a consultant in building research culture at Oakland City University.

He won the Caleb Mills Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1973, the Theodore Dreiser Award for Distinguished Contributions in Research and Creativity in 2003 and the University Service Award, also in 2003.   He was the Midwest winner and a national finalist for the Phi Delta Kappa Distinguished Contribution to Educational Research Award.  He won the Paul B. Salmon Award for the nation's best educational research presentation of 1987 and the American Association of School Administrators Award for Excellence in Educational Research in 1987 and 1988.  He is listed in Outstanding Educators of America, Who's Who in Education, Who's Who in the Midwest, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World.