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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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Kang, Ji Hei; Everhart, Nancy – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2014
Introduction: A legislative mandate to adopt digital textbooks in Florida provides an opportunity to identify concerns school librarians have regarding digital textbook implementation. Method: The stages of concern questionnaire was used to identify stages of concern among Florida school librarians about their potential role in this…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Electronic Publishing, Questionnaires, Attitude Measures
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Lundh, Anna; Limberg, Louise – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2012
Introduction: This paper concerns the concept of information use. The aim of the study is to understand how information use, as an activity, is shaped when project-based methods are used in primary school. The particular focus here is information use which involves visual information resources. It relates to the overarching aim of a set of studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Projects, Pamphlets
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Normore, Lorraine – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2011
Introduction: The perceived information needs of teachers who specialize in reading instruction for at-risk first graders were studied and related to frameworks for the role of social context in information needs, seeking and use. The frameworks considered were: disciplinarity, role theory in work settings, small worlds and information grounds and…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Information Needs, Reading Consultants, Focus Groups
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Lu, Ya-Ling – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2011
Introduction: This reported study is a part of a larger project. The research objective considered in the present paper is information behaviour and everyday hassles among youth in Taiwan. Method: The sample consisted of 133 children, including sixty-five girls and sixty eight boys, in fifth- and sixth-grade classrooms in a public elementary…
Descriptors: Coping, Information Seeking, Foreign Countries, Grade 5
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Lundh, Anna – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2010
Introduction: The concept of information needs is significant within the field of Information Needs Seeking and Use. "How" information needs can be studied empirically is however something that has been called into question. The main aim of this paper is to explore the methodological consequences of discursively oriented theories when studying…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Seeking, Theories, Models
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Kuiper, Els; Volman, Monique; Terwel, Jan – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2008
Introduction: This article reports on the adequacy and specific characteristics of 5th grade students' use of Web literacy skills and strategies after completing a programme in which these skills and strategies were the focus of attention. Method: Data were collected from twenty-one student pairs' Web use during six assignments, and recorded with…
Descriptors: Assignments, Grade 5, Internet, Computer Literacy