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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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Reynolds-Keefer, Laura – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2010
This study evaluates the impact of teaching basic qualitative methodology to preservice teachers enrolled in an educational psychology course in the quality of observation journals. Preservice teachers enrolled in an educational psychology course requiring 45 hr of field experience were given qualitative methodological training as a part of the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Educational Psychology, Research Methodology, Course Content
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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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Engle, Randi A.; Faux, Robert B. – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2006
Although the use of cases for instruction is increasingly popular in educational psychology courses for prospective teachers, systematic research on how to best use them is just beginning. This paper contributes to this growing area of research with a design-based research project that used a comparative case study design. Specifically, we…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Educational Psychology, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Case Method (Teaching Technique)