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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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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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Deemer, Sandra A. – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2009
The author describes an action research project given to masters-level preservice teachers in her educational psychology classes to help them connect the theories they are learning with educational problems they have observed or experienced. Students' responses on a six-item survey indicated that they valued the better understanding of how…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Action Research, Educational Psychology, Research Methodology
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Jeffries, Carolyn; Maeder, Dale W. – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2006
Instructors have long used short descriptive stories such as vignettes as a tool to model, teach, and research behavior and understanding as well as to stimulate discussion and problem solving in learning situations. This article summarizes the results of a study comparing the effectiveness of two types of vignettes (evaluation and synthesis) as…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Academic Achievement, Course Content, Program Effectiveness