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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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Switching Places and Looking to Adolescents for the Practices that Shape School Literacies
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Heron-Hruby, Alison; Hagood, Margaret C.; Alvermann, Donna E. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2008
This study investigated how three adolescents who struggled to meet school-based standards for reading achievement used popular culture texts both in and out of school. Specifically, we focused on how the adolescents' uses of popular culture shaped and were shaped by adult expectations for literate practice. The adults in our study included two…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Reading Achievement, Conflict, Adolescents
Relationship between Epistemological Beliefs and Conceptual Change Learning.
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Qian, Gaoyin; Alvermann, Donna E. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Focuses on how students' epistemological beliefs are related to conceptual change learning in science. Addresses: taking students' epistemological beliefs into account; findings of secondary school students' epistemological beliefs about science; and instructional strategies to promote students' mature epistemological beliefs. Focuses specifically…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Epistemology, Literature Reviews, Misconceptions
Perspectives on Secondary School Reading: Implications for Instruction.
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Alvermann, Donna E.; Qian, Gaoyin G. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Examines secondary school reading instruction from the information-processing and sociocultural perspectives. Reviews research on cognitive strategy instruction and its effectiveness. Presents implications for instruction. (HB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English Instruction, Epistemology, Literature Reviews