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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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Evaluation for What?
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Harvey, Lee – Teaching in Higher Education, 2002
Explores external quality monitoring in higher education, including types of external bodies, their modus operandi, and reasons for evaluation. Concludes that external evaluation is legitimating the status quo, failing to ask significant questions about the reality of learning experiences for students. Suggests that quality monitoring engage more…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods
Junior Sport and the Evolution of Sport Cultures.
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Siedentop, Daryl – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2002
Addresses junior sport and sport culture in New Zealand, recommending that it receive serious consideration for its crucial role in the future of New Zealand's sport culture. The paper presents three goals for junior sport programs (educative, public health, and elite development), describes characteristics of junior sport (e.g., youth want to…
Descriptors: Athletics, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Lessons Learned.
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Siedentop, Daryl – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2002
Reflects on various forces that have shaped who the author has become as a scholar and professional educator, relating 10 stories that describe lessons learned (e.g., have and use an explanatory system--be part of a tradition; all knowledge is provisional, so value inquiry; effective instruction is defined by sustained, deliberate practice; and do…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Physical Education Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Teachers as Researchers: Implications for Supervision and for Teacher Education.
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Elliott, John – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1990
This article focuses on the problems, dilemmas, and issues which confront facilitators of teacher-based action research in schools. Three action research projects in the United Kingdom are described. An attempt is made to clarify the theoretical and philosophical assumptions which underpin the action research movement in education. (IAH)
Descriptors: Action Research, Curriculum Development, Educational Researchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Pupil Experiences and Pupil Learning in the Elementary Classroom: An Illustration of a Generative Methodology.
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Alton-Lee, Adrienne; Nuthall, Graham – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1990
This article describes the methodology of a four-study research program designed to develop a grounded theory of pupil learning in elementary classrooms. Findings illustrate the relationship of instructional contexts, content variables, and pupil behavior and utterances to short-term and long-term learning. (Author/IAH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Differential Treatment in New Zealand: Reflections on Research in Minority Education.
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Cazden, Courtney B. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1990
Differential treatment, unequal participation of children in classroom lessons, and research documenting differential treatment of first-year Maori students are discussed. A description is given of an in-service intervention with New Zealand teachers involving changes in the setting events in which teachers and students interact around beginning…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Cultural Differences