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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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Marchel, Carol A.; Shields, Carol; Winter, Linda – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2011
Educational psychologists involved in teacher education are expected to develop professional teacher dispositions of preservice students. The professional disposition "teacher as change agent" is used to frame actions in service-learning field experiences in a teacher preparation program. Preservice teacher service-learning journals, self-ratings,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Mentors, Educational Psychology
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Schellenberg, Suzanne; Negishi, Meiko; Eggen, Paul – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2011
The study compared the academic achievement, as measured by final examination scores, of an experimental group of undergraduate educational psychology students who were provided with concrete mechanisms designed to promote metacognition and the use of specific encoding strategies to the achievement of a control group of similar students who were…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Class Activities, Student Attitudes
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Zambo, Debby; Zambo, Ron – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2011
Information from neuroscience is readily available to educators, yet instructors of educational psychology and related fields have not investigated teachers' beliefs regarding this information. The purpose of this survey study was to uncover the beliefs 62 teachers held about neuroscience and education. Results indicate there were three types of…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Teacher Attitudes, Neurology, Scientific Research
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Faircloth, Beverly; He, Ye; Higgins, Heather – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2011
In this study, members (n = 48) of 2 sections of a required educational psychology course conducted 3 service-learning-type field experiences and wrote reflections on the experiences in relationship to the theories and principles addressed in the course. Participants also described their vision for teaching at the beginning and the end of the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Educational Psychology, Field Experience Programs, Service Learning
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Peterson, Sarah; Schreiber, Jim; Moss, Connie – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2011
We examined the effects of an educational psychology course on students' beliefs about motivating students. After providing opportunities to engage in systematic intentional inquiry of their beliefs about teaching and learning, we expected that students' beliefs would become more soundly based in theory and research. Following several classes on…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Educational Psychology, Motivation Techniques, Student Motivation
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Lusk, Danielle L.; Jones, Brett D. – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2011
Because of the importance of students' and teachers' implicit beliefs about intelligence, we designed a study to determine: (a) How is intelligence defined--as a malleable or fixed entity--in introductory educational psychology textbooks? and (b) To what extent are classroom applications of intelligence topics included in the textbooks? We…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Introductory Courses, Textbooks, Intelligence
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Buehl, Michelle M.; Fives, Helenrose – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2011
We describe the implementation of evolving concept maps in two different graduate-level educational psychology courses: "The Adolescent Learner" and "Theories of Learning and Cognition." We provide an explicit description of how we used evolving concept maps as instructional and assessment tools in our respective classes, changes in the…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Concept Mapping, Educational Psychology, Maps