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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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Ding, Cody – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
There has been considerable debate over the ways in which children's early literacy skills develop over time. Using confirmatory multidimensional scaling (MDS) growth analysis, this paper directly tested the hypothesis of a cumulative trajectory versus a compensatory trajectory of development in early literacy skills among a group of 1233…
Descriptors: Children, Emergent Literacy, Multidimensional Scaling, Hypothesis Testing
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Bouffard, Therese; Vezeau, Carole; Roy, Mathieu; Lengele, Aurelie – International Journal of Educational Research, 2011
This paper aims to investigate to what extent a bias in self-evaluation is an enduring characteristic among children, and whether there is a relationship between the trajectory of children's self-evaluation bias over a five-year period and their psychosocial adjustment. 462 children (200 boys) in Grade 3 (mean age=8.6 years old) or Grade 4 (mean…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Bias, Well Being, Elementary School Students
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Fisher, Darrell; Waldrip, Bruce; den Brok, Perry – International Journal of Educational Research, 2005
Within the domain of learning environments research many studies have investigated students' perceptions of their teachers' interpersonal behavior. The present study adds to this line of research by (a) focusing on primary education, rather than secondary education, (b) establishing associations between perceptions of teacher interpersonal…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Primary Education, Cultural Influences, Teacher Behavior