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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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Brouwer, Patricia; Brekelmans, Mieke; Nieuwenhuis, Loek; Simons, Robert-Jan – Learning Environments Research, 2012
To deal with recent reforms and the accompanying complexity of work in secondary education, ongoing collaboration between teachers has become more important. A community is seen as a promising learning environment to support and embed collaboration into the culture of the school. However, community theory for the design of teacher communities…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Models, Interdisciplinary Approach, Communities of Practice
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den Brok, Perry; Brekelmans, Mieke; Wubbels, Theo – Learning Environments Research, 2006
The design of learning environment studies investigating students' perceptions often is multilevel in nature. This multilevel nature of studies can appear in the object of research (for example, teacher behaviour towards the individual student or towards the class), the level of perception (personalised perceptions or group perceptions) and the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Questionnaires, Interaction, Classroom Environment
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Levy, Jack; Den Brok, Perry; Wubbels, Theo; Brekelmans, Mieke – Learning Environments Research, 2003
Examined variables associated with differences in students' perceptions of interpersonal teacher behavior in seven secondary schools. Focuses on seven variables in a multilevel analysis: student and teacher gender; student and teacher ethnic background; student age and grade; class size; grade level; subject taught; and teacher experience.…
Descriptors: Class Size, Ethnic Origins, Gender Issues, Instructional Program Divisions