Lewis Elton

Professor of Higher Education
Room 903 Dept of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
University College London
London WC1E 6BT
Email: l.elton@.pcps.ucl.ac.uk

 

Professor Lewis Elton's abbreviated CV

Lewis Elton is Professor of Higher Education, University College London and Professor Emeritus of Higher Education, University of Surrey. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Physics and of the Society for Research into Higher Education, an Honorary Life Member of the Staff and Educational Development Association, and he holds Doctorates (honoris causa) of the University of Kent at Canterbury and of the University of Gloucestershire. His recent work has included evaluating the Quality Assessment programme of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and developing a Postgraduate course on 'Research and Development in Higher Education' for experienced academic teachers. His main research interests are all in higher education: Innovations in Teaching and Learning, Quality Assessment and Enhancement, Change Management.

Professor Lewis Elton's selected publications related to assessment:

Book chapters

Elton, L. (1998). Staff development and the quality of teaching. In B. Jolly, & L. Rees, (eds), Medical Education in the Millenium, pp.199 - 204. Falmer Press.

Elton, L. (1997). Cost-Effective Autonomy Learning. In C. Bell, et al. (eds.), Implementing Flexible Learning, Aspects of Educational Technology XXIX, 53 - 60.

Elton, L. (1995). Motivating students: relation to the world of work. In G. Gibbs, (Ed.), Improving student learning through assessment and evaluation, pp.333-341. Oxford: Oxford Brookes University.

Elton, L. (1992). Active learning in large classes and with increasing student numbers. In P. Cryer, (ed.), Effective learning and teaching in higher education, module 4. USDTU/CVCP.

Book reviews

Elton, L. (1992). Learning to teach in higher education. In P. Ramsden, Research Intelligence, Summer Nr 43, p 29.

Elton, L. (1994). Cooperative learning: increasing college faculty instructional productivity. In D. W. Johnson, et al (Eds.), Higher Education Review 26 (2), 86 - 88.

Elton, L. (1994). Quality in learning: a capability approach in higher education. In J. Stephenson, & S. Weil, (Eds.), and Developing professional education. In H. Bines, D. Watson, & J. Brit, (Eds.), Education and Work 6, 98 - 99.

Elton, L. (1994). Quality in Education and Training. In M. Shaw, & E. Roper, (Eds.), Studies in higher Education, 19, 383 -384.

Elton, L. (1999). Assessment Matters in Higher Education: Choosing and using different approaches. In S. Brown, & A. Glasner, (Eds.), Higher Education Review.

Elton, L. (1997). Research into student learning and support. In M. Jones, et al (Eds.), British Journal of Educational Technology, 29, 85, (1999).

Elton, L. (1999). Will Technology Really Change Education? From Blackboard to Web In T. W. Kent, & R. F. McNergney, British Journal of Educational Technology, 30, 380 - 38, (2000).

Papers in international refereed journals

Elton, L. (2003). Assessment in Materials Science. LTSN (Materials science).

Elton, L. & Stefani, L. (2002). Continuing professional development of academic teachers through self-initiated learning. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 27, 117 - 129.

Elton, L. & Johnston, B. (2002). Assessment in Universities: a critical review of research. LTSN (Generic).

Elton, L. (2001). Training for a craft or a profession. Teaching in Higher Education, 6, 421 - 422.

Elton, L. (2000). Small group work and teaching for understanding. CDT Link, 4(1), 4, National University of Singapore.

Elton, L. (2000). The UK Research Assessment Exercise: Unintended Consequences. Higher Education Quarterly, 54, 274 - 283.

Elton, L. (2000). Turning Academics into Teachers: a discourse on love. Teaching in Higher Education, 5, 257 - 260.

Elton, L. (1997). Does evaluation improve universities? The British experience', Zeitschrift fur Hochschuldidaktik 21, 80 - 84.

Elton, L. (1996). Strategies to enhance Student motivation: A conceptual analysis. Studies in Higher Education, 21, 57 - 68.

Elton, L. (1994). Cooperative learning: increasing college faculty instructional productivity. In D. W. Johnson et al

Elton, L. (1992). Learning to teach in higher education. In P. Ramsden, (Ed.), Research Intelligence, Summer Nr 43, p29.

Papers in international conferences

Elton, L. (1996). Consequences of quality assessment. Panel session, Assessing Quality in Higher Education, University of Brisbane.

Elton, L. (1995). On managing learning organisations in higher education: A British perspective. Commissioned paper for the 10th Annual Conference on Assessment & Quality, American Association for Higher Education, Boston.

 

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