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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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de Kock, Willem D.; Harskamp, Egbert G. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
Teachers in primary education experience difficulties in teaching word problem solving in their mathematics classes. However, during controlled experiments with a metacognitive computer programme, students' problem-solving skills improved. Also without the supervision of researchers, metacognitive computer programmes can be beneficial in a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Metacognition, Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Jhang, Fang-Hua – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
The declining trend in the positive reading attitude of students' has concerned scholars. This paper aims to apply a 3-level hierarchical linear model to analyse how inductive instruction and resources influence both students' positive and negative attitudes towards reading. Approximately 470,000 15-year-old students, and their school…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Krol, Karen; Janssen, Jeroen; Veenman, Simon; van der Linden, Jos – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2004
In this study, the effects of a school improvement program on cooperative learning (CL) with respect to the elaborations of 6th grade students working in mixed ability and mixed sex dyads on 2 cooperative tasks were examined. A post test only design with a control group was used to investigate the provision and receipt of elaborations within the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 6, Teaching Methods, Interpersonal Relationship