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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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Sormunen, Eero; Tanni, Mikko; Heinström, Jannica – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2013
Introduction: Information literacy instruction is often undertaken in schools as collaborative source-based writing assignments. his paper presents the findings of a study on collaboration in two school assignments designed for information literacy. Method: The study draws on the models of cooperative and collaborative learning and the task-based…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Cooperative Learning, Information Seeking, Interviews
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Sormunen, Eero; Heinstrom, Jannica; Romu, Leena; Turunen, Risto – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2012
Introduction: Past research on source-based writing assignments has hesitated to scrutinize how students actually use information afforded by sources. This paper introduces a method for the analysis of text transformations from sources to texts composed. The method is aimed to serve scholars in building a more detailed understanding of how…
Descriptors: Validity, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Web 2.0 Technologies
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Sormunen, Eero; Lehtio, Leeni – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2011
Introduction: We report on a pilot study of students' use of sources in authoring Wikipedia articles. The procedure is demonstrated by investigating how students processed texts from sources to compose their own texts. Method: Four groups of upper secondary school students (aged 17-18 years) participated in an eight-week geography course and seven…
Descriptors: Sentences, Biology, Information Literacy, Secondary School Students