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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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Akioka, Elisabeth; Gilmore, Linda – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2013
A repeated measures design, with randomly assigned intervention and control groups and multiple sources of information on each participant, was used to examine whether changing the method of delivery of a school's homework program in order to better meet the students' needs for autonomy, relatedness and competence would lead to more positive…
Descriptors: Homework, Student Motivation, Intervention, Student Attitudes
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Jaradat, Abdul-Kareem M. – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2013
Counsellors need to be able to understand perfectionism in students, and the different forms that this perfectionism may take, in order to provide their students with the appropriate counselling services. This study investigated gender differences in perfectionism, and examined the relationship of perfectionism to general self-efficacy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, High School Students, Gender Differences
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Martin, Andrew J.; Nejad, Harry; Colmar, Susan; Liem, Gregory Arief D. – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2012
Adaptability is proposed as individuals' capacity to constructively regulate psycho-behavioral functions in response to new, changing, and/or uncertain circumstances, conditions and situations. The present investigation explored the internal and external validity of an hypothesised adaptability scale. The sample comprised 2,731 high school…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Measures (Individuals), Validity, High School Students
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Murray-Harvey, Rosalind; Skrzypiec, Grace; Slee, Phillip T. – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2012
What strategies do students use to cope with bullying and how effective are they? Answers to such questions will not only help students understand how they can cope, but also inform school-wide policies and practices to reduce the incidence of bullying. To do this, schools need evidence on what strategies to focus on to most effectively target…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coping, Bullying, Victims
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Ozcinar, Zehra – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2011
The Internet today, beyond being a source of information and communication, has become an "addiction" for some people. The rate of Internet addiction is rapidly increasing in the world. The aim of this study was to examine the extent of Internet addiction among adolescents in North Cyprus. Eight hundred and fifty-one participants between the ages…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Internet
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Jung, Jae Yup; McCormick, John; Gregory, Gary; Barnett, Kerry – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate the roles of culture and motivation in the occupational decisions of senior high school students attending private schools. A theoretical framework guided the study. A questionnaire was administered to 492 Grade 11 students attending a stratified random sample of six independent (private) schools…
Descriptors: High Schools, Private Schools, Motivation, Metropolitan Areas