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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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Walraven, Amber; Brand-Gruwel, Saskia; Boshuizen, Henny P. A. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2013
A program for teaching 9th graders course content (history) and how they should evaluate information found on the WWW was designed and tested. Goal of the program was to teach content, evaluations skills, and to achieve transfer of these skills to a different domain. In the design of the program the principles of two transfer theories were…
Descriptors: Course Content, Grade 9, Student Evaluation, Student Behavior
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Nievelstein, Fleurie; van Gog, Tamara; Boshuizen, Henny P. A.; Prins, Frans J. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
Due to the complexity of the legal domain, reasoning about law cases is a very complex skill. For novices in law school, legal reasoning is even more complex because they have not yet acquired the conceptual knowledge needed for distilling the relevant information from cases, determining applicable rules, and searching for rules and exceptions in…
Descriptors: Law Students, Advanced Students, Law Schools, Knowledge Level
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Beers, Pieter J.; Kirschner, Paul A.; Boshuizen, Henny P. A.; Gijselaers, Wim H. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2007
More and more educators and researchers use ICT-tools to support collaborative learning. Research has shown that, for collaborative learning to be more effective than individual learning, individual learners have to achieve a sufficiently common cognitive frame of reference, or common ground. This common ground does not appear by itself, but…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Researchers, Teachers