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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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Peskin, Joan; Katz, Steven; Lazare, Gerald – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2009
Although there has been research on "professional learning communities" (PLCs) in schools, little attention has been paid to them in contexts of higher education. This article chronicles the development of a PLC, involving the 18 instructors who teach educational psychology each year to 1,400 preservice teacher candidates. Through questionnaires…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Educational Psychology
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Nirula, Latika; Peskin, Joan – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2008
This study evaluates the effects of teacher candidates' having access to expert teachers' modeling analytic thinking as the experts read case studies used in teaching educational psychology. Videos which consisted of selected segments of multiple expert teachers thinking aloud were developed. In the first experiment, one of these videos was viewed…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Analysis, Preservice Teachers, Experienced Teachers