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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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Nkemdilim, Egbunonu Roseline; Okeke, Sam O. C. – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2014
This study investigated the effects of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) on students' achievement in ecological concepts. Quasi-experimental design, specifically the pre-test post test non-equivalent control group design was adopted. The sample consisted of sixty-six (66) senior secondary year two (SS II) biology students, drawn from two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Ecology
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Lewis, Anna – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2014
Outcome Mapping is intended to measure the process by which change occurs, it shifts away from the products of the program to focus on changes in behaviors, relationships, actions, and/or activities of the people involved in the treatment program. This process-oriented methodology, most often used in designing and evaluating community development…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Educational Research, Outcomes of Education, Evaluation Methods
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Ogan-Bekiroglu, Feral; Belek, Deniz Eren – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine effects of model-based teaching on students' argumentation skills. Experimental design guided to the research. The participants of the study were pre-service physics teachers. The argumentative intervention lasted seven weeks. Data for this research were collected via video recordings and written…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Instructional Effectiveness, Persuasive Discourse, Preservice Teacher Education
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Engel, Liba H. – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2013
This article explores the history and pedagogy of Janusz Korczak within the context of his contemporary early Twentieth-Century European Innovative Educators which include Maria Montessori, Homer Lane, A.S. Neill, and Anton Semyonovitch Makarenko. The pedagogies of the aforementioned are compared and contrasted within the literature.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Montessori Method, Educational History, Teaching Methods
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Inman, Sally; Mc Cormack, Pip; Walker, Sarah – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2012
This article discusses some preliminary findings of the English part of a European Commission Fundamental Rights and Citizenship funded project "Children's Voices" (2011-2013) concerned with exploring and understanding children and young people's experiences of interethnic conflict and violence in primary and secondary schools. This is a…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Conflict, Foreign Countries
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Yasar, Okan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2009
This study conducts comparative analysis of the assessment and evaluation exercises in the geography textbooks written according to the Secondary Education Geography Curriculum for 2005 in Turkey with those in the former geography textbooks. In this respect, firstly, the assessment and evaluation studies included in geography textbooks written…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Textbooks, Geography, Secondary School Students
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Fung, Annis L. C. – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2008
Despite the alarming rise of early adolescence aggression in Hong Kong, it is the pioneer evidence-based outcome study on Anger Coping Training (ACT) program for early adolescence with reactive aggression to develop their prosocial behaviors. This research program involved experimental and control groups with pre- and post-comparison using a …
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, Foreign Countries
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Kitagawa, Mary M.; Kitagawa, Chisato – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2007
Seikatsu tsuzurikata is a grassroots movement in Japan that has many parallels to the whole language movement, but it developed completely independently, beginning in the late 1920s. Our research into this movement was conducted in 1984 and described in Kitagawa and Kitagawa (1987). We are now updating our earlier research. Seikatsu tsuzurikata is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Progressive Education, Whole Language Approach