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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Taras, Maddalena; Davies, Mark S. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Assessment is acknowledged as a central motivator for learning, as being perhaps the most difficult and arduous task for tutors, and also, a defining component of institutional quality, curriculum, courses and degrees. Therefore, given this, surely our understanding of terms, processes and their relationships, which reveal our knowledge of…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Questionnaires
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Taras, Maddalena – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2008
Assessment is critically important to education both for accreditation and to support learning. Yet the literature dealing with formative and summative assessment definitions and terminology is not aligned. This article reports an empirical small-scale study of lecturers in Education at an English university. The research posits that these…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries