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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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Kilinc, Ahmet; Seymen, Hatice; Malandrakis, George; Boyes, Edward; Stanisstreet, Martin – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2013
The increasing use of private rather than public transport is impacting on the environment in a number of ways, including contributing to the major problem of global warming. It is necessary, therefore, to improve strategies to encourage greater use of public transport. The aim of this study is to explore which perceived aspects of public…
Descriptors: Transportation, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Questionnaires
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Ambusaidi, Abdullah; Boyes, Edward; Stanisstreet, Martin; Taylor, Neil – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2012
A 44-item questionnaire was employed to determine pre-service teachers' beliefs about how useful various specific actions might be in helping to reduce global warming, their willingness to undertake these same actions, and the extent to which these two might be related. The instrument was administered to pre-service science teachers (n = 104) at…
Descriptors: Climate, Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Role Models
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Kilinc, Ahmet; Stanisstreet, Martin; Boyes, Edward – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2008
A questionnaire was used to explore the prevalence of ideas about global warming in Year 10 (age 15-16 years) school students in Turkey. The frequencies of individual scientific ideas and misconceptions about the causes, consequences and "cures" of global warming were identified. In addition, several general findings emerged from this study.…
Descriptors: Nuclear Energy, Foreign Countries, Climate, Misconceptions