Dear Helen
THanks very much for taking the plunge and for being the first to post to ELiSS. This is very welcome. I am delighted to welcome the many criminologists to ELiSS and I hope you will feel this is as much your journal as anyone elses.
Like you I share an interest in assessment that blends new ideas with traditional ways of seeing things. While it is not on assessment I have been intrigued by a paper by Henry Lewis from 1978 in Studies in HE which describes the undergraduates of that era in terms many would say characterise those of today. So from a period of very traditional assessment a concern that 'students were not up to it and what to do about it'. I think we are moving on hugely but unevenly. Others may disagree with this!