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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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Educational Television as Mediated Literacy Environments for Preschoolers
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Jennings, Nancy A.; Hooker, Steven D.; Linebarger, Deborah L. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2009
Research on children's television suggests that preschool programs can facilitate literacy and language development. In 1998 Whitehurst and Lonigan described two interdependent sets of skills involved in literacy acquisition: "outside-in" or oral language skills and "inside-out" or code-related skills. Outside-in skills support children's…
Descriptors: Written Language, Production Techniques, Oral Language, Preschool Children
Gender Differences in Preschool Children's Recall of Competitive and Noncompetitive Computer Mathematics Games
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Wei, Fang-Yi Flora; Hendrix, Katherine Grace – Learning, Media and Technology, 2009
This study investigated whether competitive and noncompetitive educational mathematics computer games influence four- to seven-year-old boys' and girls' recall of game-playing experience. A qualitative analysis was performed to investigate what preschool children may have learned through their selective recall of game-playing experience. A…
Descriptors: Females, Preschool Children, Gender Differences, Males