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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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Comparison of Academically Average and Gifted Students' Self-Rated Ethical Sensitivity
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Tirri, Kirsi; Nokelainen, Petri – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
This study examined the ethical sensitivity of 2 Finnish urban schools' 7th- to 9th-grade students (N = 249) with the Ethical Sensitivity Scale Questionnaire (ESSQ), based on Narvaez' (2001) operationalization of ethical sensitivity. Three research questions were formulated: (1) Are the psychometric properties of ESSQ scientifically valid? Are…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academically Gifted, Psychometrics, Ethics
Factors that Contribute to or Hinder Academic Productivity: Comparing Two Groups of Most and Least Successful Olympians
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Nokelainen, Petri; Tirri, Kirsi; Campbell, James Reed; Walberg, Herbert – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
In the 1940s, Lewis Terman (1954a, 1954b) studied "life success" of 730 gifted men at the midpoint of their careers and found that success is associated with stability and absence of disturbing conflicts. In this article, we use retrospective data (N = 624) from the academic Olympians in 3 countries (USA, Germany, and Finland) to study factors…
Descriptors: Motivation, Foreign Countries, Talent, Productivity
The Moral Concerns and Orientations of Sixth- and Ninth-Grade Students.
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Tirri, Kirsi – Educational Research and Evaluation: An International Journal on Theory and Practice, 2003
Studied the moral concerns and orientations of 100 sixth graders and 94 ninth graders in Finland through their written stories. Findings show that sixth and ninth graders emphasize different kinds of moral conflicts in schools, and that there are gender differences as well as age differences. (SLD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, High School Students