Center Administration Staff

Neal Kingston, Ph.D.
Director
nkingsto@ku.edu Curriculum Vitae
(785) 864-9705

Neal is the Director of CETE. He started his career as a classroom teacher, worked summers with students with significant cognitive disabilities, and subsequently worked in large-scale assessment for 32 years. He has worked as a psychometrician, test developer, and systems developer. He has managed all aspects of the educational testing process for both general and alternate assessments, including as an Executive Director at Educational Testing Service, Associate Commissioner for Curriculum and Assessment at the Kentucky Department of Education, Senior Vice President at Measured Progress, Vice President and General Manager at CTB/McGraw-Hill, and Director of CETE at the University of Kansas. He has published and presented more than 100 articles, papers, and book chapters on assessment.

Ronda Consolver, B.Ed.
Assistant Director
rcon@ku.edu
(785) 864-9690

Ronda serves as the business manager and main CETE contact when the Director is unavailable. She also processes all payroll documents for CETE staff and tuition sponsorships for GRAs and is the personnel related staff member for HR issues. Ronda is also the person handling space and security for CETE.

Amy Tackkett, B.S.
Assistant to the Director
amytack@ku.edu
(785) 864-7092

Amy is responsible for scheduling all appointments for the Director and making his travel arrangements for conferences and out of town meetings. She also provides support for the assessment staff including making arrangements for conferences. The other half of Amy’s job involves training and working with staff on Test Builder when images or items for the assessment need to be edited.