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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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Bleske-Rechek, April; Fritsch, Amber – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2011
At the same time as some faculty committees and corporations are appealing to the use of online ratings from RateMyProfessors.com to inform promotion decisions and nationwide university rankings, others are derogating the site as an unreliable source of idiosyncratic student ratings and commentary. In this paper we describe a study designed to…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, College Faculty, College Students, Web Sites
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Bleske-Rechek, April; Michels, Kelsey – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2010
Since its inception in 1999, the RateMyProfessors.com (RMP.com) website has grown in popularity and, with that, notoriety. In this research we tested three assumptions about the website: (1) Students use RMP.com to either rant or rave; (2) Students who post on RMP.com are different from students who do not post; and (3) Students reward easiness by…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty