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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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Epistemological Development in Higher Education
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Richardson, John T. E. – Educational Research Review, 2013
Research has been carried out on students' epistemological development in higher education for at least 50 years. Researchers on both sides of the Atlantic have converged on accounts that describe students' epistemological development in terms of a sequence or hierarchy of qualitatively distinct stages or positions. The rich qualitative data…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Epistemology, Student Development, Measurement Techniques
Self-Rated Competences Questionnaires from a Design Perspective
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Braun, Edith; Woodley, Alan; Richardson, John T. E.; Leidner, Bernhard – Educational Research Review, 2012
This paper provides a theoretical review of self-rated competences questionnaires. This topic is influenced by the ongoing world-wide reform of higher education, which has led to a focus on the learner outcomes of higher education. Consequently, questionnaires on self-rated competences have increasingly been employed. However, self-ratings are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Questionnaires, Competence, Educational Change
Eta Squared and Partial Eta Squared as Measures of Effect Size in Educational Research
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Richardson, John T. E. – Educational Research Review, 2011
Eta squared measures the proportion of the total variance in a dependent variable that is associated with the membership of different groups defined by an independent variable. Partial eta squared is a similar measure in which the effects of other independent variables and interactions are partialled out. The development of these measures is…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Predictor Variables, Effect Size
Measuring the Relationship between Scores on Two Questionnaires
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Richardson, John T. E. – Educational Research Review, 2007
Characterising the relationship between participants' scores on two different questionnaires is a common problem in educational research. The complement of the statistic known as Wilks' lambda measures the amount of variance shared between the scores obtained by the same group of participants on two sets of variables. (1 - lambda) is symmetric, in…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Educational Research, Questionnaires, Scores