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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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Urbancic, Matej; Glazar, Sasa A. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to establish what impact experimental work has on the understanding of scientific concepts, what pupils remember about the experiments they carried out and how they are able to formulate and understand the experiment plan. A sample of 386 pupils aged 13+ participated in the research, of which 162 in the experimental…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
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Pavlin, Jerneja; Vaupotic, Natasa; Glazar, Sasa A.; Cepic, Mojca; Devetak, Iztok – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2011
A total of 448 first-year university students participated in the study at the beginning of the academic year 2009/10. A paper-pencil liquid crystal questionnaire (LCQ) comprising 20 items was used to evaluate students' general conceptions related to liquid crystals, their properties and to the state of matter in general. The results show that 2/3…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, Student Teacher Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes
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Devetak, Iztok; Glazar, Sasa A.; Vogrinc, Janez – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2010
In the paper the qualitative research in which the researcher has been directly involved, and has himself been examining the research phenomenon in the studied environment, is presented. The aim of this qualitative study is to gather data in the form of rich content-based descriptions of people, events, and situations by using different,…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Qualitative Research, Science Education, Research Methodology