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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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Wininger, Steven R.; Norman, Antony D. – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2010
Although Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory (HNT) is one of the most prevalent theories in psychology, the authors argued that it is also one of the most misinterpreted or misrepresented, particularly in educational psychology textbooks. Therefore, after carefully reading Maslow's writings on HNT they conducted a content analysis of 18 educational…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Educational Psychology, Content Analysis, Theories
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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