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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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Brown, Gavin T. L.; Hui, Sammy K. F.; Yu, Flora W. M.; Kennedy, Kerry J. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2011
The beliefs teachers have about assessment influence classroom practices and reflect cultural and societal differences. This paper reports the development of a new self-report inventory to examine beliefs teachers in Hong Kong and southern China contexts have about the nature and purpose of assessment. A statistically equivalent model for Hong…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Accountability, Teacher Attitudes
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Kennedy, Kerry J.; Chun, Lo Yiu; Fairbrother, Gregory P. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2004
The study reported here used the OECD scenarios on the future of schooling to probe the views of a sample of educators identified as having the potential to influence education policy formation in Hong Kong. The results indicated that among this sample, there were multiple perspectives on the future of schooling and these were related to the very…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society)
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Cogan, John J.; Kennedy, Kerry J. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2004
This chapter overviews the schooling for the future (SFF) study in its entirety including both the survey, Phase 1, and the interviews, Phase 2. It develops the historical background of how this SFF study grew out of and interfaces with the larger OECD/CERI schooling for tomorrow (SFT) project directed from Paris. Further, it details how the six…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Futures (of Society), Case Studies, Foreign Countries
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Mellor, Suzanne; Kennedy, Kerry J. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2003
In September 1999, over 3000 Australian students in 115 schools representing all schooling sectors participated in the Australian component of the IEA Civic Education study. In this paper, the focus in particular is on Australian students' democratic values and on their attitudes towards participation and social action. The results suggest that…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Democracy, Citizenship Education, Social Action