From 1970 to 1974, Dr. Renckly served on active duty with the US Air Force. Following his honorable discharge, he began a career in civil service which has lasted to the present. During his civil service career, Dr. Renckly held a teaching position at Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois from 1974-1979 and served as chief instructional designer for the US Navy Recruiting Command at Orlando, Florida from 1979 to 1984. Since 1984, he has served as Air University's Curriculum Coordinator.

In 1984, Dr. Renckly received a Doctorate in Education from the University of Florida in curriculum and instruction. He received a Master of Science degree from Eastern Illinois University in Instructional Media in 1978, and a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Penn State University in 1970. Dr. Renckly has a diverse range of research interests. He has written numerous articles and given many presentations to a variety of national and international groups on topics that include educational testing, standard setting, curriculum development issues and methods, research methods, distance education issues, and artificial intelligence and intelligent tutoring systems. His current research is in the area of use of the internet and world wide web in distance education programs.

Dr. Renckly has also served as an adjunct faculty member at Troy University Montgomery Campus (formerly Troy State University Montgomery) since 1986, where he teaches graduate courses in Research Methodology. He has converted his course to a completely internet-based format, and teaches the course in both modes.

Dr. Renckly is married to the former Joyce Black of Montgomery, Alabama. They have one son, Adam. Dr. Renckly and his wife reside in Prattville, Alabama.

• "Toward Establishing Local Norms for Test Statistics," DETC News (formerly NHSC News), Spring 1994.

• Air University Sampling and Surveying Handbook (Editor, 1993, 1988, and 1985 Editions). A monograph describing the fundamentals of developing and administering surveys.

• "Recent Developments in Testing," Paper presented at the National Home Study Council (NHSC) Education Directors Seminar, Air Force Extension Course Institute, Gunter AFB, Montgomery AL October 25-27, 1993.

• "Establishing Passing Scores: Focus on Group Difference Methods," Paper presented at the Fifth National Conference on Competency-Based Assessment and Performance. Indianapolis, Indiana, April 1993.

• "Quality Assessment: Educational Evaluation From a Total Quality Perspective," Proceedings of the 16th Annual Inter--Service Correspondence Exchange Conference, Williamsburg, VA. October 1992.

• "Establishing Passing Scores," Paper presented at the Fourth National Conference on Competency-Based Assessment and Performance. North Carolina, April 1992.

• "Criterion-Referenced Test Analysis: Another Look at a Compromised Process," Proceedings of the 14th Annual Inter--Service Correspondence Exchange Conference, Pensacola, FL. October 1990.

• "Toward an Instructional Training System Validation Model," Paper presented at the Advancements in Training Technology Conference, National Science Center for Communications and Electronics, Augusta, GA., April 1988.

• "TAP 3 - A Powerful New Psychometric Tool: Its Applicability to Exportable Training Systems," Paper presented at the Advancements in Training Technology Conference, National Science Center for Communications and Electronics, Augusta, GA., April 1988.

• "The Validation of Intelligent Training Systems," Davis, Carol A. and Thomas R. Renckly. Proceedings of the 1987 Conference on Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Arlington, VA., October 1987.

• "TAP 3.0 - A New Revision of a Powerful Test Analysis Tool: Its Utility in a Distance Education Environment," Proceedings of the 11th Annual Inter-Service Correspondence Exchange Conference, Montgomery, AL. 6-8 October 1987.

• "The Development of a Research Design Decision Aid Package for the Novice Researcher," Proceedings of the 11th Annual Inter-Service Correspondence Exchange Conference, Montgomery, AL. 6-8 October 1987.

• "Research - A Research Design Decision Aid," Proceedings of the Conference on Training Applications Using Expert Systems, pp. 74-85. National Science Center for Communications and Electronics, Augusta, GA. 28-30 April 1987.

• "Some Psychological and Pedagogical Concerns Regarding the Use of Expert Systems in Education and Training," Proceedings of the Conference on Training Applications Using Expert Systems, pp. 64-68. National Science Center for Communications and Electronics, Augusta, GA. 28-30 April 1987.

• "Interpretive Structural Modeling: Its Theoretical Basis and Its Application to Instructional Design," Proceedings of the 1986 Air Force Conference on Technology in Training and Education, pp. IV-2 to IV-23, 10-13 March 1986.

• "A Comparative Evaluation of a Computer-Sequenced Curriculum and a Traditionally-Sequenced Curriculum," Proceedings of the 1986 Air Force Conference on Technology in Training and Education, pp. IV-25 to IV-27, 10-13 March 1986.

• "The New Test Analysis Package: TAP TESTBANK," Proceedings of the 1986 Air Force Conference on Technology in Training and Education, pp. IV-58 to IV-66, 10-13 March 1986.

• "Test Analysis Package," Proceedings of the 1985 Air Force Conference on Technology in Training and Education, pp. III--34 to III-45, 15-19 April 1985.

• A Comparative Evaluation of a Computer-Sequenced Curriculum and a Traditionally-Sequenced Curriculum, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Florida, August 1984.

• "Curriculum Viewed as a Binary System: An Approach to the Determination of Sequence," Proceedings of the Third Inter-Service/Industry Training Conference, Orlando FL., 29 Nov to 2 Dec 1981.

• "Refining the Instructional Systems Concept: Some Experiences From Military Training," Educational Technology, XX, 3, March 1980.

• Guide to Designing and Conducting Research Studies. (1989) A monograph presenting a concise view of research methodology, data gathering, and statistical analysis techniques, and how these three activities interact in designing and conducting research studies.

• A Guide to Criterion-Referenced Test Analysis. (1990) A monograph which discusses a variety of criterion-referenced test statistics, contrasts them with norm-referenced test statistics, and describes how to compute and interpret them in practical criterion-referenced testing situations.

• A Practitioner’s Guide to Standard Setting. (1993) A monograph presenting a variety of methods for establishing passing standards for achievement-based and performance-based tests.

• Test Analysis and Development System (TAD), copyright 1990-2010 - A Windows-based program designed to store, retrieve, review, and analyze student test data. The program performs standard statistical test and item analyses. The program is also designed to track item statistics on an unlimited number of test items in an on-board database, and can search for items meeting particular user-defined criteria. The program can create camera-ready tests for student use, as well as computerized tests designed to be administered to students on computer with the aid of an on-board test manager. (for Windows 95, 98, NT 4, XP, and Vista)

• CutScore, copyright 1993, 1998 - a Windows-based program that implements Ronald Berk’s (1976) computational and graphic methods for determining optimum cutoff scores for criterion -referenced tests. (for IBM PCs and compatibles)

• CLUSTER, copyright 1984 - A microprocessor--based program designed to identify common clusters within a mass of data. The program is similar in operation to factor analytic techniques. (for APPLE II series and IBM PCs and compatibles)

• CHASE, copyright 1982, 1983, 1984 - A microprocessor-based program designed to aid in the derivation of learning hierarchies and the development of instructional sequences. It also has the ability to deal with either potential or real-time constraints in the instructional system. The program is currently available for the Apple II series of computers. (for APPLE II series computers only)

• COKER-IZER, copyright 1982, 1983, 1984 - A microprocessor--based program designed to store and analyze teacher observation data to derive prescriptive diagnoses of individual teachers. The program supports the COKER Teacher Observation Instrument developed by Drs. Homer and Joan Coker, Georgia State University. (for APPLE II series computers only)

• RESEARCH, copyright 1990 - A microprocessor-based program designed as an aid in developing sound research designs and statistical techniques to support those designs. It is a query-based program which interacts with the user to determine the basic characteristics of the specific research problem under study. From the answers supplied by the user, the program guides the user toward one or two likely research designs and supporting statistical techniques. (for IBM PCs and compatibles)