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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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Earnshaw, Valerie A.; Rosenthal, Lisa; Carroll-Scott, Amy; Peters, Susan M.; McCaslin, Catherine; Ickovics, Jeannette R. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2014
Experiencing bullying as a victim is associated with negative health and health behavior outcomes, including substance use, among adolescents. However, understandings of protective factors--factors that enhance adolescents' resilience to the negative consequences of bullying--remain limited. The current study investigates whether teacher…
Descriptors: Smoking, Bullying, Race, Correlation
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Karkkainen, Riitta; Raty, Hannu; Kasanen, Kati – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2010
The study examined children's and their parents' and teachers' perceptions of the malleability of the child's academic competencies. A total of 103 third- and sixth-graders and their parents and teachers were asked to rate how much the child could improve her/his competencies in mathematics and Finnish. The participants were asked to use…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Student Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Galliger, Courtney C.; Tisak, Marie S.; Tisak, John – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2009
Children's social interactions are often dependent upon the setting or context in which they occur. The current study explored the school bus as a unique context for social interaction. One hundred and fifty-seven elementary school students (78 males and 79 females), in grades 3, 4, and 5, completed a questionnaire concerning the rate and types of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, School Buses, Aggression, Bus Transportation
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Karkkainen, Riitta; Raty, Hannu; Kasanen, Kati – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2008
This study set out to examine children's notions of the malleability of their academic competencies and the relations of these notions to the child's grade-level and gender and the parent's educational level. In interviews of a total of 103 boys and girls of the third and the sixth grade, children of academically and vocationally educated parents…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Grade 3, Grade 6, Academic Ability