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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 School Students' Perceptions of the Relationship between Music and Math
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Cranmore, Jeff; Tunks, Jeanne – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2015
While there is little doubt that engaging in musical or mathematical activities stimulates brain activity at high levels and that increased student involvement fosters a greater learning environment, questions remain about whether musical ability and mathematics performance are related. This study took a qualitative approach that allowed 24 high…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Music Activities, Multiple Intelligences
Principal Roles, Work Demands, and Supports Needed to Implement New Teacher Evaluation
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Cosner, Shelby; Kimball, Steven M.; Barkowski, Elizabeth; Carl, Bradley; Jones, Curtis – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2015
Policy makers at the federal level have embraced an educator effectiveness agenda, which in turn has driven many states across the country to rapidly develop and implement new and more complex teacher evaluation systems. It is increasingly clear that the success of these nascent teacher evaluation systems partly depends on the will, skill, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Administrator Role, Principals, Organizational Change
A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Factors and Scenarios Influencing College Students' Decision to Complete Surveys at Five Mid-Western Universities
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Koskey, Kristin L. K.; Cain, Bryce; Sondergeld, Toni A.; Alvim, Henrique G.; Slager, Emily M. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2015
Achieving respectable response rates to surveys on university campuses has become increasingly more difficult, which can increase non-response error and jeopardize the integrity of data. Prior research has focused on investigating the effect of a single or small set of factors on college students' decision to complete surveys. We used a…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Investigations, College Students, Decision Making
"MOOCing" on Up? Experiences of an Elusive Course Completer
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Malin, Joel R. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2015
In this article, I apply autoethnography to recount and analyze my experiences as a recent enrollee and course completer of a massive open online course (MOOC). Research surrounding MOOCs heretofore has been predominantly quantitative in nature, whereas this research utilizes a qualitative approach and offers a student's in-depth perspective.…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Ethnography, Autobiographies