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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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Friedrich, Tom – Learning Assistance Review, 2014
Tutoring services often restrict their data collection and analysis practices to publicizing session counts and tutee GPAs. This study suggests that programs that offer writing consultation may enhance their sessions' epistemic power by researching their tutoring staff's instructional choices. After explaining why and describing how a…
Descriptors: Tutors, Writing Instruction, Phenomenology, Teaching Methods
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Shaw, Cassandra S.; Holmes, Karen E. – Learning Assistance Review, 2014
A wealth of research is available regarding supplemental instruction; however, a dearth exists regarding online supplemental instruction and critical thinking. This case study explored what was assumed to be known of critical thinking and investigated the extent to which critical thought was promoted within a university's online supplemental…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Supplementary Education, Online Courses, Case Studies
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Thomas, Melissa; Williams, Amanda; Case, Jinny – Learning Assistance Review, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the results from the Graduate Writing Institute, a week-long graduate writing workshop at a research-intensive HSI university in the southwest. Sixty-three graduate students who worked on large writing projects, such as theses or dissertations, volunteered to attend one of four separate Writing Institutes.…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Graduate Students, Research Universities, Measures (Individuals)
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Johnson, Karen Gabrielle; Galluzzo, Benjamin Jason – Learning Assistance Review, 2014
Mathematical modeling and directed learning groups were employed in a terminal mathematics course to encourage university students to conceptualize real-world mathematics problems. Multiple assessments were utilized to determine whether students' conceptual development is enhanced by participating in directed learning groups conducted in a…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
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Huelskamp, Diana – Learning Assistance Review, 2014
Block scheduling is the reallocation of a school day into longer class sessions to allow for more active teaching strategies and active engagement of students, in the effort to increase student performance. Various types of block scheduling exist. Traditional scheduling is when the school day is divided into six to eight sessions, with each…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, School Schedules, Gender Differences, Scores