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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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An Exploration of Issues Surrounding Teaching the Nature of Science to Pre-Service Primary School Teachers
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Murphy, Cliona; Kilfeather, Paula; Murphy, Colette – Irish Educational Studies, 2007
This article reports on the outcomes of a study that compared implicit and explicit teaching approaches on the development of contemporary conceptions of the nature of science (NoS). The sample comprised two groups of prospective primary teachers in the Republic of Ireland, all non-specialists in science. Research has shown that contemporary…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods
Adapting Science Performance Tasks Developed in Different Countries for Use in Irish Primary Schools
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Kilfeather, Paula; O'Leary, Michael; Varley, Janet – Irish Educational Studies, 2006
This article describes a four-year project undertaken to develop a set of performance tasks that could be used for assessing hands-on science in Irish primary schools. It begins by considering some of the literature on performance assessment and concludes with a discussion on the potential of the tasks to support teaching and learning in science.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance Based Assessment, Evaluation, Hands on Science