MERLOT Awards: House Cup
The House Cup (modeled on the Harry Potter House Cups) is an award to recognize the level of contributions made to the MERLOT collection during the past academic year. Contributions include reviews, materials added to MERLOT, assignments, comments, and editor reviews. The board with the most contributions (weighted in favor of reviews and submitting materials to MERLOT) receives the House Cup.
2023
Business Editorial Board
The MERLOT House Cup recognizes the MERLOT Editorial Board that makes the highest level of contributions (reviews, new materials, learning exercises & bookmarks, comments) in an academic year. Our 2023 winner is the Business Editorial Board (Editor, Dr. Cathy Swift)!
Engineering Editorial Board (The Rising Star Board)
The MERLOT Rising Star Board recognizes the highest level of contributions (reviews, new materials, learning exercises & bookmarks, comments) among MERLOT Editorial Boards that have 2 to 4 members. Our 2023 winner is the Engineering Editorial Board (Editor, Dr. Eduardo Montero)!
2022
Health Sciences Board
The top five editorial boards in alphabetical order are: Biology, Business, Health Sciences, Information Technology, and Teacher Education. This year's winner was the Health Sciences Board which made 4486 contributions to MERLOT, including 239 individual reviews, 128 composite reviews, and 705 material submissions to MERLOT. This is the second year that the Health Sciences Board has won the House Cup.
The Editorial Board for Health Sciences includes:
- Nancyruth Leibold - Editor of the Board - Southwest Minnesota State University
- Mary Bemker - Walden University
- Mwafaq Haji - Shelton State Community/Technology College
- Colleen Nevins - California State University, Channel Islands
Psychology Editorial Board (The Rising Star Board)
The Rising Star award was new to MERLOT in 2020. It recognizes the board comprised of 2-4 members that contributed the most per capita reviews during the year. The award can be won only one time. The annual Rising Star award went to the Psychology Editorial Board. The editor of the board is Catherine Honig, retired, National-Louis University. Members of her board include Julie Evey, Kent State University, Jean Mandernach, Grand Canyon University, and Sherri Restauri, AST/Verbit, Coastal Carolina University. The Psychology Board made 384 contributions to MERLOT including 24 individual reviews, 18 composite reviews and 34 material submissions.
2021
Health Sciences Board
The top five editorial boards in alphabetical order are: Biology, Business, Health Sciences, Mathematics, and Teacher Education, and the recipient of the 2021 award is the Health Sciences Board. Nancyruth Leibold is a brand new editor that has brought her board along incredibly well. Congratulations, Nancyruth, and board members, Kelly Massey and Colleen Nevins!
Health Sciences Board (Rising Star Board)
The Rising Star Board was selected from those Boards with between 2 and 4 members and is based on the number of reviews that were produced by that board divided by the number of board members during the previous year. The 2021 award goes to the Health Sciences Board, Nancyruth Leibold, Editor. This is the first time a small board has been awarded the House Cup and the Rising Star Award. Congratulations, Nancyruth, and board members, Kelly Massey and Colleen Nevins!
2020
Business Editorial Board
The top five editorial boards in alphabetical order were: Biology, Business, Computer Science, Sociology and Teacher Education. The 2020 winner of the House Cup was the Business Board which made 803 contributions to MERLOT, including 85 individual reviews, and 24 composite reviews.
Library Science Editorial Board (Rising Star Board)
The Rising Star Board was selected from those Boards with between 2 and 5 members and is based on the number of reviews that were produced by that board divided by the number of board members between March 16, 2019 and March 15, 2020. The two top small boards were only separated by 1 point: Library Science and Psychology. The winner was Library Science. Congratulations to Editors Deirdre McDonald and Victoria Packard.
2019
Biology Editorial Board
The top ten boards in order for 2019 were: Biology, Teacher Education, Business, Sociology, ICT Literacy, Computer Science, History, Mathematics, Psychology and Instructional Technology. The recipient of the House Cup, the Biology Board completed 674 Editor Reviews, 123 Individual Reviews, 30 Composite Reviews, submitted 90 new materials to MERLOT and made 72 comments on the collection.
2018
Teacher Education Editorial Board
The top five editorial boards in alphabetical order for 2018 were: Biology, Business, Computer Science, Sociology and Teacher Education, and the recipient of the 2018 House Cup was the Teacher Education Editorial Board, making 697 contributions to MERLOT, completing 175 individual reviews and 106 composite reviews.
2017
Business Editorial Board
The Business Editorial Board was the recipient of the 2017 House Cup. They made 899 contributions to MERLOT, completing 277 editor’s reviews, 126 individual reviews, 66 composite reviews and submitting 291 materials to MERLOT. The top five editorial boards in alphabetical order are: Biology, Business, ICT Literacy, Sociology and Teacher Education.
2016
Teacher Education Editorial Board
The top five editorial boards in alphabetical order are: Business, History, Information Technology, Library, and Teacher Education, and the recipient of the 2016 award was the Teacher Education Editorial Board, which made 899 contributions to MERLOT, completing 409 editor’s reviews, 204 individual reviews, 123 composite reviews and submitting 104 materials to MERLOT.
2015
Teacher Education Editorial Board
The Teacher Education Editorial Board contributed 643 editor reviews, 171 individual reviews, 104 composite reviews, added 63 materials to MERLOT and contributed 60 comments on materials.
2014
Biology Editorial Board
The Biology Editorial Board was the winner of the 2014 House Cup, given each year to the most productive Editorial Board. The Biology Board completed 176 individual reviews, 82 composite reviews, 545 editors' reviews, added 474 materials to MERLOT, and made 20 member comments!
The top five boards for productivity in 2014 included Biology, Business, Health Sciences, Mathematics, and Teacher Education.
2013
Health Sciences Editorial Board
The Editorial Board was responsible for making 1246 contributions to MERLOT during the nine month period of July 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013. Note that this was only a nine month period, due to the change in the conference date. Jeanne Sewell, Editor of Health Sciences is pictured here receiving her award from Gerry Hanley. Also of note, Jeanne received the MERLOT Distinguished Service award in 2012.
2012
Biology Editorial Board
The Biology Board had a total of 981 contributions to the MERLOT collection from July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012. The award is significant this year, because Jim is a first-year Editor and most of the Biology Editorial Board Members are new. Congratulations to this vibrant, hard-working group!
2011
Business Editorial Board
Pictured here, some Business Editorial Board Members accept their trophy: Gerry Hanley (MERLOT), Patty Feller (Peer Reviewer), Susan Moncada (Associate Editor of Accounting), Mike Seda (Peer Reviewer), Tom Moncada (Peer Reviewer).
2010
Teacher Education Editorial Board
On the left, accepting the House Cup from Gerry Hanley, are David Wicks and Dorothy Fuller. The Teacher Education Editorial Board, with Jane Moore as Editor, was responsible for 19% of the contributions to MERLOT by Editorial Boards this past academic year (July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010). Pictured on the right are some members of the Teacher Education Editorial Board with the House Cup (left to right): Judy McEnany, Jeanine Wilker, David Wicks, Cris Guenter, Dorothy Fuller, and Roxana Marachi.
2009
Health Sciences Editorial Board
Jeanne Sewell, Editor, accepts the House Cup from Phil Moss. The Health Science Editorial Board was responsible for 19% of the contributions to MERLOT by the 20 Editorial Boards during the academic year July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009.
2008
Business Editorial Board
The Business Editorial Board contributed the following numbers of materials compared to other board members: 13% of the materials Triaged (first stage of review) by the 19 Editorial Boards; 24% of the Individual Peer Reviews written by the 19 Editorial Boards; 33% of the Composite Peer Reviews written by the 19 Editorial Boards; 35% of the Learning Materials added to the MERLOT collection by the 19 Editorial Boards; a total of 23% of the Total Contributions to MERLOT by the 19 Editorial Boards. The Editorial Board that came in second had less than 10% of the Total Contributions to MERLOT by the 19 Editorial Boards. Pictured here (with the House Cup) are Editorial Board Members: Ron Purser, Bob Sproule, Susan Moncada, Jackie Gilbert, Tom Moncada, Michelle Kunz, and Ingrid Ulstad.