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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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Trickey, S.; Topping, K. J. – Research Papers in Education, 2004
This paper offers a systematic critical review of controlled outcome studies of the "Philosophy for Children" (P4C) method in primary (elementary) and secondary (high) schools. Ten studies met the stringent criteria for inclusion, measuring outcomes by norm-referenced tests of reading, reasoning, cognitive ability, and other curriculum-related…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questionnaires, Cost Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education
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Trickey, S.; Topping, K. J. – Research Papers in Education, 2004
This paper offers a systematic critical review of controlled outcome studies of the "Philosophy for Children" (P4C) method in primary (elementary) and secondary (high) schools. Ten studies met the stringent criteria for inclusion, measuring outcomes by norm-referenced tests of reading, reasoning, cognitive ability, and other curriculum-related…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questionnaires, Norm Referenced Tests, Thinking Skills
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Topping, K. J.; Lindsay, G. A. – Research Papers in Education, 1992
The paper synthesizes and analyzes research on the technique for nonprofessional tutoring of reading known as paired reading. Data from many extant small-scale studies are compared with the very large quantity of new data available from multisite field trials in one British local education authority. (SM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Informal Education, Literature Reviews, Reading Improvement