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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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Rowland-Bryant, Emily; Skinner, Christopher H.; Skinner, Amy L.; Saudargas, Richard; Robinson, Daniel H.; Kirk, Emily R. – Research in the Schools, 2009
The interaction between seductive details (SD) and a graphic organizer (GO) was investigated. Undergraduate students (n = 207) read a target-material passage about Freud's psychosexual stages. Depending on condition, the participants also read a biographical paragraph (SD-only), viewed a graphic organizer that linked the seductive details to the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Interaction, Recall (Psychology), Context Effect
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Rowland, Emily; Skinner, Christopher H.; Davis-Richards, Kai; Saudargas, Richard; Robinson, Daniel H. – Research in the Schools, 2008
Seductive details are interesting, but sometimes irrelevant to the target material present in texts and lectures. In the current study, 388 undergraduate students read six paragraphs describing Sigmund Freud's psychosexual stages (i.e., target material). Participants in four groups also read one of two biographical paragraphs. The biographical…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Recall (Psychology), Primacy Effect, Higher Education
Griffin, Marlynn M.; Robinson, Daniel H.; Carpenter, Holli M. – Research in the Schools, 2000
Studied the pretest and posttest attitudes of teacher education students who were required to write a literature review with empirical references about the pros and cons of corporal punishment in the classroom. Results for 59 students in 2 treatment groups and 55 students in 2 control groups at southern universities (where previous research has…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Corporal Punishment, Discipline, Literature Reviews