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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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Ornek, Funda; Zziwa, Byansi Jude – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2011
In some countries physics lessons are limited in many cases due to different constraints to lecturing and rote learning with in short supply use of teaching materials and other practical activities. These limitations can make physics abstract and difficult for students to understand. This paper presents one of activities, which can be done by…
Descriptors: Physics, Motion, Learning Processes, Rote Learning
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Ornek, Funda – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate how modeling-based instruction combined with an interactive-engagement teaching approach promotes students' problem solving abilities. I focused on students in a calculus-based introductory physics course, based on the matter and interactions curriculum of Chabay & Sherwood (2002) at a large state…
Descriptors: Physics, Problem Solving, Calculus, Teaching Methods
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Ornek, Funda – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2008
One or more theoretical frameworks or orientations are used in qualitative education research. In this paper, the main tenets, the background and the appropriateness of phenomenography, which is one of the theoretical frameworks used in qualitative research, will be depicted. Further, the differences among phenomenography, phenomenology and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Educational Research, Ethnography, Physics