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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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King, Kenneth – International Journal of Training Research, 2011
This paper reviews, from 1990-2010, the place of different aspects of skill in the literature associated with the influential world conferences of Jomtien and Dakar. It then looks at the particular history of the treatment of skill within the series of global monitoring reports (GMRs) from 2002-2010. The GMR was one of the key mechanisms set up,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational History, Educational Development, Intellectual History
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Johnson, Martin – International Journal of Training Research, 2006
The UK vocational assessment landscape is changing and research has a key role in helping to identify trends and anticipate emerging issues and challenges. This review collates the messages from recently published research about specific issues that have been found to affect the measurement of vocational learning. It also highlights issues that…
Descriptors: Vocational Evaluation, Qualifications, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Soden, Rebecca; Pithers, Bob – International Journal of Training Research, 2003
There has been a growing emphasis within educational literature on the need to encourage all learners to think critically about whatever they are studying. There were concerns that this aim was not being achieved in a degree program for VET tutors. One purpose of the study was to quantify the extent of critical thinking in one cohort of VET…
Descriptors: Essays, Tutors, Critical Thinking, Vocational Education