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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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A Decade of Change in General Education
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Johnson, D. Kent; Ratcliff, James L.; Gaff, Jerry G. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2004
From 1990 to 2000, there was widespread change in general education. What do the trends say? (Contains 10 tables and 2 notes.)
Descriptors: General Education, Immersion Programs, Cooperative Planning, Educational Policy
Creating Coherence: The Unfinished Agenda
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Johnson, D. Kent; Ratcliff, James L. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2004
Most want a more coherent curriculum. Few succeed. What works, and why?
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Undergraduate Study, Educational Change, General Education
Re-Envisioning the Change Process in General Education
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Ratcliff, James L. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2004
Change in general education is changing, and there are lessons to be learned in reenvisioning the curriculum.
Descriptors: General Education, Educational Change, Distance Education, Curriculum Design
Two Continuums Collide: Accreditation and Assessment.
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Ratcliff, James L.; Lubinescu, Edward S.; Gaffney, Maureen A. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2001
Introduces this theme issue, which examines contemporary dimensions of how accreditation and student outcomes assessment come together in higher education. The accountability movement in education has caused the development of two parallel continuums that have merged in ways the issue's chapters explore. (SLD)
Descriptors: Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
What We Can Learn from Coursework Patterns About Improving the Undergraduate Curriculum.
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Ratcliff, James L. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1992
The Coursework Cluster Analysis Model is offered for linking college student assessment to curricular reform. The model determines the extent of student improvement in general learned abilities during undergraduate studies as measured by the relationship between pre- and postcollege standardized test scores, and then correlates coursework patterns…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, College Curriculum, College Entrance Examinations, College Instruction
Using Assessment as a Basis for the Articulation of Transfer Students.
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Ratcliff, James L. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1992
A study used the Coursework Cluster Analysis Model to assess comparability of community college and lower-division courses taken by 76 transfer students and 168 "native" students at Southern University (Louisiana). Results indicate that the different student abilities and backgrounds and different institutions produced different kinds of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Credits, College Curriculum, College Instruction