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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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A Guided Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Approach: Impact on Critical Thinking
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Nargundkar, Satish; Samaddar, Subhashish; Mukhopadhyay, Somnath – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2014
The impact of the Guided Problem Based Learning (Guided PBL) approach on Critical Thinking (CT) skills in a core business analysis course was examined. The implementation of this approach included using a textbook created for this purpose, which presents problems first, with blank spaces for students to work them out. Discussion of the concepts…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Business Administration Education
Team Machine: A Decision Support System for Team Formation
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Bergey, Paul; King, Mark – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2014
This paper reports on the cross-disciplinary research that resulted in a decision-support tool, Team Machine (TM), which was designed to create maximally diverse student teams. TM was used at a large United States university between 2004 and 2012, and resulted in significant improvement in the performance of student teams, superior overall balance…
Descriptors: Decision Support Systems, Teamwork, Performance, Comparative Analysis