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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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Woods, Kevin; Parkinson, Gill; Lewis, Sarah – School Psychology International, 2010
Many countries have established systems for identifying, and providing for, the range of students with disabilities during their formal educational assessments. Most systems include the provision of variously termed "special access arrangements" (SAAs), such as the provision of extra time or practical assistance with some aspect of an examination.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Focus Groups, Disabilities, Access to Education
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Kirkcaldy, B. D.; Furnham, A. F.; Siefen, R. G. – School Psychology International, 2010
The incidence of "pure" obsessive-compulsive disorders in the clinical population was found to be around 1.2 percent for a clinical sample record--stretching over a 2.5-year period--of around 2500 adolescents in a German child and adolescent psychiatry clinic. Over a 3-month period (time-frame) a sample of 350 new entries to the clinic were given…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Psychiatry, Adolescents, Patients
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Jimerson, Shane R.; Annan, Jean; Skokut, Mary; Renshaw, Tyler L. – School Psychology International, 2009
The International School Psychology Survey (ISPS) was used to gather information about New Zealand educational psychologists' characteristics, training, roles, activities, preferences, research interests and the challenges they experienced in their work. The results of this survey were considered in relation to the social and cultural context of…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, School Psychologists, Interests, Foreign Countries