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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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Ripple, Richard E., Ed.; Constas, Mark A., Ed. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1989
Seven papers on creativity and creativity research are presented. Topics covered include ordinary creativity, cognitive views of creativity (creative teaching for creative learning), immunizing children against the negative effects of reward, creative leadership, creativity and instructional technology, heuristics for empirical research on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Creativity, Creativity Research, Creativity Tests
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Tomlinson-Keasey, Carol, Ed. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
Eight articles are presented, which examine the following issues defining current research in education of the gifted: (1) identification of separate areas of giftedness; (2) stability and predictability of precocity; (3) fulfillment of potential; (4) socioemotional adjustment of gifted individuals; and (5) sex differences in giftedness. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Children
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Mayer, Richard E., Ed. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
This special section on cognition and mathematics contains an introduction and 13 articles on advances in the psychology of mathematics learning. The articles focus on how students learn to solve mathematics problems, including arithmetic computation problems, arithmetic word problems, and computer programing problems. (SLD)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, Educational Psychology, Elementary Secondary Education