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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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Ponton, Michael K.; Rhea, Nancy E. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2006
The current perspective of autonomous learning defines it as the agentive exhibition of resourcefulness, initiative, and persistence in self-directed learning. As a form of human agency, it has been argued in the literature that this perspective should be consistent with Bandura's (1986) Social Cognitive Theory (SCT). The purpose of this article…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Independent Study, Learning Theories, Epistemology
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Kohns, Jonathan W.; Ponton, Michael K. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2006
Personal responsibility has long been considered an important component in self-directed learning. And yet, a theoretical understanding of personal responsibility that could lead to meaningful instrumentation has eluded the field. The present study considers the merits of the Triangle Model of Responsibility (TMR) (Schlenker, Britt, Pennington,…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Research Needs, Construct Validity, Goodness of Fit