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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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Yilmaz, Kaya; Filiz, Nilufer; Yilmaz, Ali – British Educational Research Journal, 2013
Based on a descriptive phenomenological research design, this study investigated Turkish elementary school students' experiences in learning social studies via objects in museums. After students visited four different museums during the teaching of three thematic units at sixth grade level, their lived experiences were elicited. Purposeful…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Museums, Elementary School Students
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Lefstein, Adam; Snell, Julia – British Educational Research Journal, 2013
English education policy-makers have targeted classroom time as a key area for regulation and intervention, with "brisk pace" widely accepted as a feature of good teaching practice. We problematise this conventional wisdom through an exploration of objective and subjective dimensions of lesson pace in a corpus of 30 Key Stage 2 literacy lessons…
Descriptors: Pacing, Literacy Education, Elementary Schools, Observation
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Tennent, Wayne; Stainthorp, Rhona; Stuart, Morag – British Educational Research Journal, 2008
This article describes two studies. The first study was designed to investigate the ways in which the statutory assessments of reading for 11-year-old children in England assess inferential abilities. The second study was designed to investigate the levels of performance achieved in these tests in 2001 and 2002 by 11-year-old children attending…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Tests, Inferences, Cognitive Ability