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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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Fredricks, Jennifer; McColskey, Wendy; Meli, Jane; Mordica, Joy; Montrosse, Bianca; Mooney, Kathleen – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2011
Researchers, educators, and policymakers are focusing more on student engagement as the key to addressing low achievement, student boredom and alienation, and high dropout rates (Fredricks, Blumenfeld, and Paris 2004). As schools and districts seek to increase engagement, it is important for them to understand how it has been defined and to assess…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Psychometrics, Identification, Measures (Individuals)
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Fredricks, Jennifer; McColskey, Wendy; Meli, Jane; Mordica, Joy; Montrosse, Bianca; Mooney, Kathleen – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2011
This report reviews the characteristics of 21 instruments that measure student engagement in upper elementary through high school. It summarizes what each instrument measures, describes its purposes and uses, and provides technical information on its psychometric properties. [For the full report, see ED514996.]
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learner Engagement, Measures (Individuals), Measurement Techniques