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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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High-Stakes Examination Preparation that Controls Teaching: Chinese Prospective Teachers' Conceptions of Excellent Teaching and Assessment
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Chen, Junjun; Brown, Gavin T. L. – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2013
How prospective teachers conceive of teaching excellence and assessment purposes probably influences how teaching and assessment practices are implemented in the future. This study evaluated, in four "normal universities" in the People's Republic of China, 765 prospective teachers' responses to two self-report instruments…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, High Stakes Tests, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers
Assessment Policy and Practice Effects on New Zealand and Queensland Teachers' Conceptions of Teaching
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Brown, Gavin T. L.; Lake, Robert; Matters, Gabrielle – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2009
Teachers' thinking about four conceptions of teaching (i.e., apprenticeship-developmental, nurturing, social reform, and transmission) were captured using the "Teaching Perspectives Inventory" (TPI). New Zealand and Queensland have very similar teaching-related policies and practices but differences around assessment policies and practices are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis