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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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Torenbeek, Marjolein; Jansen, Ellen P. W. A.; Hofman, W. H. Adriaan – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2011
The study presented here is an elaboration on recent educational effectiveness research focusing on long-term school effects. Central in this study is the approach to teaching at secondary schools and its relation to student perception of the fit between school and university and 1st-year academic achievement. Based on previous research, a coding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Instructional Effectiveness, Models
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Marks, Gary N. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to identify school effects on student performance for tertiary entrance in Australia, taking into account student-level predictors using longitudinal data from the 2003 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study. It finds that aspects of schooling, such as positive attitudes to school and disciplinary…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Performance Factors
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Maslowski, Ralf; Doolaard, Simone; Bosker, Roel J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2008
This paper tries to depict important elements of the professional career of Bert P.M. Creemers. Starting from his early work on teaching styles and its effects on students' initial reading, it is shown that there are consistent patterns in his work. These come to the fore in his widely cited "The Effective Classroom" (1994) but also in the many…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Improvement, Evidence