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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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Wildy, Helen; Clarke, Simon; Styles, Irene; Beycioglu, Kadir – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2010
Part of a 13-nation, cross-cultural study of the extent to which principals perceive their pre-appointment experiences had prepared them for the job, the International Study of Principal Preparation (ISPP), this paper compares the responses of novice principals in Turkey and Western Australia. Using a survey based on data from case studies of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies
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Wildy, Helen; Clarke, Simon – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2009
This paper provides an example of the application of the cognitive interview, a qualitative tool for pre-testing a survey instrument to check its cognitive validity, that is, whether the items mean to respondents what they mean to the item designers. The instrument is the survey used in the final phase of the International Study of Principal…
Descriptors: Interviews, Validity, Pretesting, Surveys