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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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Shores, Melanie L. – SRATE Journal, 2011
This paper investigated pre-service teachers' perceptions of student attributions and mathematics performance. Participants from two universities in Alabama (N=80) consisted of 72.5% female, 75.9% white, 21.5% African American, 2.6% other, 44.3% juniors, 38% seniors, 16.5% graduate, and 1.3% sophomores. Results indicate 87.6% of participants…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Attribution Theory, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics
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Shores, Melanie L.; Smith, Tommy G.; Jarrell, Sasha L. – SRATE Journal, 2009
The present study (n = 761, 58.1% female) examined whether or not individual learner variables (gender, ethnicity, SES) contribute to differences in mathematics performance as measured by test score and mathematics grade for fifth and sixth grade mathematics students in Alabama. Multiple regression analysis revealed that gender and SES show…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Multiple Regression Analysis