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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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Storytelling as a Strategy for Understanding Concepts of Electricity and Electromagnetism
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Kokkotas, Panos; Rizaki, Aikaterini; Malamitsa, Katerina – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2010
In our research, we investigated whether students will develop inquiry skills, such as hypothesis exploration and formulation and interpretation, and metacognitive skills, such as comprehension of new knowledge, as a result of a storytelling strategy employed during teaching. We also investigated whether students will utilize the skills and…
Descriptors: Imagination, Institutional Cooperation, Metacognition, Teaching Methods
A Critical Analysis of the Sources of Reading Recovery: An Empiricist Perspective
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Groff, Patrick – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2004
This discussion of the sources of "Reading Recovery" presents the results of an investigation into whether or not this relatively costly, tutoring remedial reading program, designed for primary-grade students, is based on relevant experimental evidence as to how these students best learn to read. The general finding of the study was that Reading…
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Remedial Reading, Tutoring, Primary Education