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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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Complexity Theory--An Approach to Assessment that Can Enhance Learning and--More Generally--Could Transform University Management
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Elton, Lewis – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2010
The paper discusses the continued relevance of the Humboldtian model of university education and interprets it in terms of the two fundamental concepts of complexity and collegiality. These are then applied to issues of assessment in universities. Beyond issues arising directly from complexity and collegiality, present university failings in…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Higher Education, College Administration, Models
Using the Online Environment in Assessment for Learning: A Case-Study of a Web-Based Course in Primary Care
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Russell, Jill; Elton, Lewis; Swinglehurst, Deborah; Greenhalgh, Trisha – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2006
The development of e-learning has opened up new opportunities for innovation in assessment practices in higher education. This descriptive case study draws upon staff and student experiences of teaching and learning on a web-based Masters programme in primary health care to explore how specific features of the online environment can be exploited…
Descriptors: Primary Health Care, Online Courses, Distance Education, Case Studies
Should Classification of the UK Honours Degree Have a Future?
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Elton, Lewis – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2004
The classified honours degree has so much prestige and so venerable a tradition that only very serious and systemic changes could justify the question as to whether classification has a future. However, while this paper argues that such changes have indeed taken place in the past 30 years, the main arguments for change are pedagogical. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Classification, Honors Curriculum
Evaluating Teaching and Assessing Teachers in Universities.
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Elton, Lewis – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 1984
The evaluation of teaching and the assessment of teachers are seen as similar activities with different aims. This point is argued on the basis of experience with established practice in higher education and through a comparison with practices in other professions. A model is constructed. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria