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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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Pell, Tony; Hargreaves, Linda – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2011
Cluster analysis has been applied to quantitative data in educational research over several decades and has been a feature of the Maurice Galton's research in primary and secondary classrooms. It has offered potentially useful insights for teaching yet its implications for practice are rarely implemented. It has been subject also to negative…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Multivariate Analysis, Teaching Methods, Research Methodology
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Galton, Maurice; Hargreaves, Linda; Pell, Tony – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2009
This article compares the academic performance and classroom behaviour of pupils when taught new concepts or engaged in problem solving in sessions organised either as cooperative group work or whole class, teacher directed instruction. Comparisons of attainment were made in classes of pupils aged 11 to 14 years (Key Stage 3) in English,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Students, Academic Achievement, Problem Solving
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English, Eve; Hargreaves, Linda; Hislam, Jane – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2002
Argues that the British National Literacy Strategy (NLS) offers teachers contradictory pedagogical advice on interactive teaching. Uses case study evidence and observations of classroom interaction to show that, while teachers vary in sensitivity to dilemmas posed by NLS demands, their Literacy Hour discourse is quantitatively and qualitatively…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Foreign Countries, Primary Education