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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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Improving Interpersonal Communication through Community Service
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Hoffman, August John; Wallach, Julie; Sanchez, Eduardo; Afkhami, Hasti – Community College Enterprise, 2009
The current study sought to determine if community based gardening projects would reduce perceptions of the need to use communication devices--cell phones or text messaging--and increase the likelihood of participating in future volunteer projects. Results strongly support the predictions in that the experimental group post-test mean score of the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Interpersonal Communication, Service Learning
Reducing Self-Entitlement Attitudes through Service Learning
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Hoffman, August; Wallach, Julie – Community College Enterprise, 2007
The purpose of the current study is to explore the effects of community service work and community involvement on perceptions of self-entitlement--expectations of others to do things for oneself--among undergraduate students. Over the course of a 16-week semester, 26 randomly selected subjects (20 community college psychology students and six…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Undergraduate Students, Community Involvement, Service Learning