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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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Derryberry, W. Pitt; Wininger, Steven R. – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2008
This study examined relationships between students' use of their text and motivational constructs linked to self-regulation: need for cognition, goal orientation, and self-determination. Participants were 234 Educational Psychology students. In the Fall semester students were assigned one of two textbooks whereas in the Spring they were allowed to…
Descriptors: College Students, Textbooks, Educational Psychology, Goal Orientation