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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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Two Approaches for Analyzing Students' Competence of "Evaluation" in Group Discussions about Climate Change
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Feierabend, Timo; Stuckey, Marc; Nienaber, Sarah; Eilks, Ingo – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2012
Up until now, very few models conceptualizing students' competence in evaluation, argumentation and discourse in the context of science education have been proposed. Most suggestions for analyzing this particular competence in students are normative and the empirical support for them remains weak. The problem becomes even more severe when such…
Descriptors: Climate, Competence, Innovation, Teaching Methods
Promoting Scientific Literacy Using a Sociocritical and Problem-Oriented Approach to Chemistry Teaching: Concept, Examples, Experiences
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Marks, Ralf; Eilks, Ingo – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2009
This paper revisits the discussion about the objectives of scientific literacy-oriented chemistry teaching, its connection to the German concept of "Allgemeinbildung", and the debate of "science through education" vs. "education through science". About 10 years ago the sociocritical and problem-oriented approach to chemistry teaching was suggested…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Action Research, Chemistry, Scientific Literacy