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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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Squires, Garry; Dunsmuir, Sandra – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2011
At the national level there has been a call for more therapeutic interventions and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has been identified as one approach that can be used. The training of educational psychologists (EPs) has been extended to three years and this provides an opportunity to increase the depth of knowledge of particular therapeutic…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Psychologists, Focus Groups, Professional Training
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Dunsmuir, Sandra; Brown, Emma; Iyadurai, Suzi; Monsen, Jeremy – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2009
With the growing emphasis on accountability and evidence-based practice, evaluation has become increasingly important in the contexts in which educational psychologists (EPs) practice. This paper describes a Target Monitoring and Evaluation (TME) system, derived from Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) which was developed to evaluate outcomes of a wide…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Evaluation Methods, Psychometrics, Replication (Evaluation)
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Dunsmuir, Sandra; Clifford, Vivienne; Took, Sarah – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2006
This paper reports a study that aimed to investigate the perspectives of educational psychologists (EPs) and speech and language therapists (SLTs) about collaborative practices across these two services, to identify any barriers to collaboration and to explore how these could be overcome. The views of EPs and SLTs in two local authorities were…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Psychologists, Data Analysis, Cooperation
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Dunsmuir, Sandra; Clifford, Vivienne – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2003
This paper outlines issues around learning to write and considers the range of difficulties children may experience. The role of Information and Communications Technology in facilitating writing development is considered. Software applications that can be used to support aspects of the writing process and target teaching are outlined. Criteria for…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Communications, Educational Psychology, Childrens Writing