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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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Secondary School Teachers' Perspectives on Teaching about Topics That Bridge Science and Religion
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Billingsley, Berry; Riga, Fran; Taber, Keith S.; Newdick, Helen – Curriculum Journal, 2014
The question of where to locate teaching about the relationships between science and religion has produced a long-running debate. Currently, science and religious education (RE) are statutory subjects in England and are taught in secondary schools by different teachers. This paper reports on an interview study in which 16 teachers gave their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Cooperation
Paying Lip-Service to Research? The Adoption of a Constructivist Perspective to Inform Science Teaching in the English Curriculum Context
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Taber, Keith S. – Curriculum Journal, 2010
Constructivism is a widely influential perspective in science education research. However, there have been strong criticisms of attempts to adopt constructivism as a principle underpinning official science curriculum policy (for example in New Zealand). Over the past decade recommendations for classroom pedagogy in extensive official guidance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Science Curriculum, Science Teachers
Conceptions of Assessment: Trainee Teachers' Practice and Values
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Winterbottom, Mark; Brindley, Sue; Taber, Keith S.; Fisher, Linda G.; Finney, John; Riga, Fran – Curriculum Journal, 2008
This study examines the values and practice in relation to assessment of a sample of 220 trainee teachers studying for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, an initial teacher training and education (ITET) course, at the University of Cambridge, UK. The survey instrument was drawn from James and Pedder (2006), and was composed of questionnaire…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Summative Evaluation