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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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Huang, Min-Hsiung – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2009
Reports of international studies of student achievement often receive public attention worldwide. However, this attention overly focuses on the national rankings of average student performance. To move beyond the simplistic comparison of national mean scores, this study investigates (a) country differences in the measures of variability as well as…
Descriptors: International Studies, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
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Kush, Joseph C.; Watkins, Marley W.; Brookhart, Susan M. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2005
Although the relationship between attitudes toward reading and reading achievement has been well documented, the causal relationship between these constructs remains unclear. Using longitudinal covariance structure modeling, this study tested the hypothesis that 3 reading-related constructs in the primary grades (2nd-3rd grade) - reading attitude,…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Grade 7, Reading Achievement, Reading Attitudes