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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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Bertolani, Jessica; Mortari, Luigina; Carey, John – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2014
"Eccomi Pronto" is a school counselor-led, story-based curriculum that is designed to promote simultaneously the development of early elementary school students' self-direction, active engagement in school, and pre-literacy skill development. This article reports the results of the first evaluation of a large-scale implementation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Mixed Methods Research, Pretests Posttests
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Okech, Jane E. Atieno – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2012
Children in Kenya's Kisumu District Primary Schools (N = 430) completed three measures of trauma. Respondents completed the "My Worst Experience Scale" (MWES; Hyman and Snook 2002) and its supplement, the "School Alienation and Trauma Survey" (SATS; Hyman and Snook 2002), sharing their worst experiences overall and specifically in schools.…
Descriptors: Children, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Conflict
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Burnham, Joy J.; Hooper, Lisa M.; Ogorchock, Heather N. – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2011
This study compared the fears of North American and South American children in Grades 2-5. Fears were assessed with English and Spanish versions of the American Fear Survey Schedule (FSSC-AM; Burnham 2005). Specific fears and several most common fears differed across the two countries. Overall, the South American children and the girls from both…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Infants, Foreign Countries