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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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Croll, Paul – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2009
The issue of levels of participation in post-compulsory education has been emphasised by the current policy initiatives to increase the age to which some form of participation is compulsory. One of the acknowledged weaknesses of research in the field of children's intentions with regard to participation is the lack of longitudinal data. This paper…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Compulsory Education, Parent Background, Gender Differences
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Croll, Paul; Attwood, Gaynor; Fuller, Carol; Last, Kathryn – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2008
The paper reports a study of children's attitudes to school based on a questionnaire survey of 845 pupils in their first year of secondary school in England, together with interviews with a sample of the children. A clearly structured set of attitudes emerged from a factor analysis which showed a distinction between instrumental and affective…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
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Croll, Paul – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2004
This paper engages with recent theoretical and empirical studies relating to the inter-generational transmission of social, economic and educational characteristics. It considers the different ways in which the role of the family has been conceptualized in this work and discusses some of the results of empirical studies of family roles in relation…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Objectives, Social Capital, Foreign Countries