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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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De Wit, David J.; Karioja, Kim; Rye, B. J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2010
Student perceptions of teacher and classmate support have been identified as a powerful protective factor for a range of children's outcomes. Evidence suggests that students perceive less support as they advance to higher grades, a factor that may be linked to declines in school attendance. This study utilized a sample of 2,616 students enrolled…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Grade 9, Grade 10, High School Students
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Modin, Bitte; Ostberg, Viveca – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2009
This study examined the importance of aspects of the school climate for adolescents' psychosomatic health using multilevel modelling. Analyses were based on 18,571 ninth-grade students distributed over 1,026 classes and 284 schools in the greater Stockholm area in 2004 and 2006. Both individual- and contextual-level associations between aspects of…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Environment
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Caro, Daniel H.; Lehmann, Rainer – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2009
A handful of studies have found evidence of a gap in academic achievement between students of high- and low-socioeconomic status (SES) families. Furthermore, some scholars argue that the gap tends to widen as students get older. Evidence is, however, inconclusive and relies mostly on limited methodological designs. Drawing on the Hamburg School…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Achievement Gap, Socioeconomic Status, Mathematics Achievement