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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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McNaught, Keith; Hoyne, Gerard – Issues in Educational Research, 2013
In response to staff concerns about literacy and numeracy standards of commencing students, the School of Health Sciences at the University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) Fremantle campus worked with academic support staff from the University's Academic Enabling and Support Centre (AESC) to develop a Post Entrance Numeracy Assessment (PENA).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Sciences, Student Evaluation, Numeracy
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Moller, Asa – Issues in Educational Research, 2012
Compensatory pedagogy is in theory a strategy used to manage social and cultural diversity (Sleeter, 2007) by providing extra resources or special treatment for so-called deprived groups. A problem with this particular kind of approach to social and cultural diversity is that it lacks critical awareness of the way social differences (i.e. race,…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, Disadvantaged, Social Differences, Cultural Pluralism
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Page, Angela; Smith, Lisa F. – Issues in Educational Research, 2012
This study used mixed methods to compare perceptions of relational aggression (RA) of adolescent girls (n = 282) and their teachers (n = 15) in New Zealand, and to explore strategies for teachers to effectively manage RA in the classroom. Results indicated that younger adolescent girls view physical aggression as more acceptable than older girls,…
Descriptors: Females, Interpersonal Relationship, Aggression, Mixed Methods Research
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Chua, Siew Lian; Wong, Angela F. L.; Chen, Der-Thanq – Issues in Educational Research, 2009
This paper describes how a new classroom environment instrument, the "Chinese Language Classroom Environment Inventory (CLCEI)", was developed to investigate the nature of Chinese language classroom learning environments in Singapore secondary schools. The CLCEI is a bilingual instrument (English and Chinese Language) with 48 items written in both…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Form Classes (Languages), Translation
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Hemmings, Brian; Kay, Russell – Issues in Educational Research, 2009
There is a dearth of published information about the Literacy and Numeracy National Assessment (LANNA). This study was designed to explore the relationships among LANNA test scores at Year 7 and, in addition, to examine the predictive capacity of these scores in relation to Year 10 School Certificate English and Mathematics results. As a way of…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 9
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Lian, Chua Siew; Wong, Angela F. L.; Der-Thanq, Victor Chen – Issues in Educational Research, 2006
The Chinese Language Classroom Environment Inventory (CLCEI) is a bilingual instrument developed for use in measuring students' and teachers' perceptions toward their Chinese Language classroom learning environments in Singapore secondary schools. The English version of the CLCEI was customised from the English version of the "What is happening in…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Student Attitudes, Validity, Factor Structure