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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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Lunn Brownlee, Jo; Johansson, Eva; Cobb-Moore, Charlotte; Boulton-Lewis, Gillian; Walker, Sue; Ailwood, Joanne – Education 3-13, 2015
While investment in young children is recognised as important for the development of moral values for a cohesive society, little is known about early years teaching practices that promote learning of moral values. This paper reports on observations and interviews with 11 Australian teachers, focusing on their epistemic beliefs and beliefs about…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Epistemology, Moral Values, Moral Issues
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Kershner, Ruth; Warwick, Paul; Mercer, Neil; Kleine Staarman, Judith – Education 3-13, 2014
We focus on children's approaches to managing group work in classrooms where collaborative learning principles are explicit. Small groups of 8-10 year olds worked on collaborative science activities using an interactive whiteboard. Insubsequent interviews, they spoke of learning to "be patient" and "wait", for multiple…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Cooperative Learning, Bulletin Boards
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Chou, Mu-hsuan – Education 3-13, 2014
In Taiwan, English was only officially taught at the secondary and tertiary levels before 2001. Since 2001, English courses have been formally incorporated into the curriculum in primary schools. Research on teaching and assessing English in primary school education is relatively new compared with research on other levels of education in Taiwan.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Hacieminoglu, Esme; Yilmaz-Tüzün, Özgül; Ertepinar, Hamide – Education 3-13, 2014
The purposes of this study were to develop and validate an instrument for assessing elementary students' nature of science (NOS) views and to explain the elementary school students' NOS views, in terms of varying grade levels and gender. The sample included 782 students enrolled in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Exploratory factor…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Scientific Principles, Test Construction, Program Validation
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Chien, Chin-Wen – Education 3-13, 2014
Elementary school English activation curriculum, an additional two culture classes, has been implemented only in New Taipei City in Taiwan starting from 2010, so only a few studies focus on it. This is a case study of an English teacher's integration of a school's features into the activation curriculum in a rural elementary school. This…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Elementary School Curriculum, Integrated Activities, Case Studies