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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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Kerlin, Steven C.; McDonald, Scott P.; Kelly, Gregory J. – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2009
This study describes an analytic procedure to examine inquiry processes in science teaching and learning. This procedure was applied to the study of a seismology unit in a ninth-grade earth science classroom. An emergent coding scheme was developed that provided a description of the different activities, science content, and type of scientific…
Descriptors: Seismology, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Teaching Methods
Telli, Sibel; den Brok, Perry; Cakiroglu, Jale – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2008
This study examined associations between Turkish high school students' perceptions of their teachers' interpersonal behavior and their attitudes toward science and investigated what profiles could be discerned in class perceptions of these teachers. Data were collected with the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI) and the Test of Science…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Profiles, Grade 9
Washington, Stephanie – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2008
This narrative inquiry explores the lives of five ninth grade female adolescents enrolled in an alternative school for students who have been expelled from an urban school district. The population of female students in the school increased from 21 to 102 over five years. The same trend is evident nationally. This study uses theories that label…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Adolescents, Females, Urban Schools