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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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The Science of Enhanced Student Engagement and Employability: Introducing the Psychology Stream of the Inaugural HEA STEM Conference
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Hulme, Julie; Taylor, Jacqui; Davies, Mark N. O.; Banister, Peter – Psychology Teaching Review, 2012
The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is committed to enhancing the quality of learning and teaching for all university students in the UK, and the inaugural conference for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects, held in April 2012 at Imperial College, London, aimed to showcase research and evidence-based educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Evidence, Foreign Countries
The Assessment of Critical Evaluation, Leadership and Reflection Skills through Participation in Online Discussions
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Taylor, Jacqui – Psychology Teaching Review, 2012
Increasingly, educators from all disciplines are using blogs, social networking sites, VLEs and wikis to encourage academic discourse between students. However, a common problem experienced by educators is how these important learning experiences can be assessed and because of this difficulty many are not assessed. For some time now, I have been…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Leadership, Criticism, Content Analysis
An Exploration of Identity, Motivations and Concerns of Non-Traditional Students at Different Stages of Higher Education
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Taylor, Jacqui; House, Becky – Psychology Teaching Review, 2010
Non-traditional students are increasingly making up a larger part of the student body and can include students from various groupings, for example, differentiated by ethnicity, socio-economic class (SEC), disability, residential location or age. The aim of this initial exploratory study was to investigate whether and how the motivations, identity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students, Disproportionate Representation
Teaching Psychology to Computing Students
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Taylor, Jacqui – Psychology Teaching Review, 2008
The aim of this paper is two-fold. The first aim is to discuss some observations gained from teaching psychology to computing students, highlighting both the wide range of areas where psychology is relevant to computing education and the topics that are relevant at different stages of students' education. The second aim is to consider findings…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Psychology, Majors (Students), Interdisciplinary Approach