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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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Christ, Tanya; Arya, Poonam; Chiu, Ming Ming – Journal of Literacy Research, 2012
This mixed-methods study explored (a) the purposes for which teachers selected video clips of their own literacy teaching and assessment practices to share and discuss with peers, (b) how these purposes were related to the content of the discussions, and (c) what variables were related to teachers' generation of new ideas and future actions that…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Elementary Education, Grade 1, Teacher Education Programs
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Christ, Tanya – Journal of Literacy Research, 2011
Vocabulary development is a critical goal for early childhood education. However, it is difficult for researchers and teachers to determine whether this goal is being met, given the limitations of current assessment tools. These tools tend to view word knowledge dichotomously--as right or wrong. A clear sense of children's depth of semantic…
Descriptors: Young Children, Vocabulary Development, Early Childhood Education, Semiotics