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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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Aggregating School Based Findings to Support Decision Making: Implications for Educational Leadership
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Kaniuka, Theodore S.; Vitale, Michael R.; Romance, Nancy R. – Issues in Educational Research, 2013
Successful school reform is dependent on the quality of decisions made by educational leaders. In such decision making, educational leaders are charged with using sound research findings as the basis for choosing school reform initiatives. As part of the debate regarding the usability of various evaluative research designs in providing information…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Reading Programs, Statistical Analysis
Assessing Early Literacy and Numeracy Skills among Indigenous Children with the "Performance Indicators in Primary Schools" Test
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Godfrey, John R.; Galloway, Ann – Issues in Educational Research, 2004
This report examines the "Performance Indicators in Primary Schools" (PIPS) test as a reliable and cohesive instrument to assess early literacy and numeracy skills among Indigenous children. The process includes the examination of the reliability of the PIPS test using the Cronbach Alpha and the Split-half method with Pearson's r correlation…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Emergent Literacy, Indigenous Populations, Test Validity