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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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Loch, Sarah – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
This paper explores ways that a small group of young adolescents talk about their futures within the context of their schooling at a performing arts secondary school. The data gathered for this project stem from pictures participants drew when asked to "draw themselves in the future" and was enhanced by interviews in which participants spoke about…
Descriptors: Expectation, Student Educational Objectives, Freehand Drawing, Secondary School Students
Polat-Yaseen, Zeynep – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
This study was designed for two major goals, which are to describe students' mental models about atom concept from 6th to 8th grade and to compare students' mental models with visual representations of atom in textbooks. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected with 4 open-ended questions including drawings which were quantified using the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Schemata (Cognition), Visualization