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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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Xu, Jianzhong – Research Papers in Education, 2014
This study examines models of variables posited to predict students' homework motivation management (HMM), based on survey data from 866 8th graders (61 classes) and 745 11th graders (46 classes) in the south-eastern USA. Most of the variance in HMM occurred at the student level, with parent education as the only significant predictor at the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Homework, Secondary School Students, Grade 8
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Spielhofer, Thomas; Benton, Tom; Schagen, Sandie – Research Papers in Education, 2004
National value-added datasets have recently become available that record a pupil's progress from Key Stage 2 right through to GCSE. Such a dataset is clearly a useful tool for assessing the impact various characteristics of secondary schools have on pupil performance. This paper reports on a research project which involved the use of a variety of…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Single Sex Schools, School Size, Foreign Countries