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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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Interaction between the Learners' Initial Grasp of the Object of Learning and the Learning Resource Afforded
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Pang, Ming Fai; Marton, Ference – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2013
Two studies are reported in this paper. The object of learning in both is the economic principle of changes in price as a function of changes in the relative magnitude of changes in demand and supply. The patterns of variation and invariance, defining the conditions compared were built into pedagogical tools (text, graphs, and worksheets). The…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Comparative Analysis, Outcomes of Education, Instructional Materials
Learning Study: Helping Teachers to Use Theory, Develop Professionally, and Produce New Knowledge to Be Shared
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Pang, Ming Fai; Ling, Lo Mun – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2012
The lesson study approach is a systematic process for producing professional knowledge about teaching by teachers, and has spread rapidly and extensively in the United States. The learning study approach is essentially a kind of lesson study with an explicit learning theory--the variation theory of learning. In this paper, we argue that having an…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Teacher Collaboration, Learning Theories, Faculty Development
Boosting Financial Literacy: Benefits from Learning Study
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Pang, Ming Fai – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
This paper reports on a study that employed a theory-based approach in the form of a learning study to enhance a domain-specific generic capability, financial literacy, of Grade 12 students to empower them to make informed and independent financial decisions. Financial literacy is seen in this study as a function of student understanding of a…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Economics, Money Management, Grade 12