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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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Brown, Gavin T. L.; Harris, Lois R.; Harnett, Jennifer – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
Teachers' understandings of feedback probably influence the type and quality of feedback that they provide. The beliefs of 518 New Zealand practicing teachers about feedback were evaluated with the "Teachers' Conceptions of Feedback" (TCoF) inventory and related to practices these teachers considered to be feedback. Nine feedback factors and four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Feedback (Response), Beliefs
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Chen, Junjun; Brown, Gavin T. L.; Hattie, John A. C.; Millward, Pam – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
This study surveyed Chinese middle school (n = 951) teachers' conceptions of excellent teaching and examined the relationship of those conceptions to their self-reported teaching practices. Responses were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. These teachers identified one examination-oriented dimension and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Factor Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Brown, Gavin T. L.; Lake, Robert; Matters, Gabrielle – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
The conceptions Queensland teachers have about assessment purposes were surveyed in 2003 with an abridged version of the Teacher Conceptions of Assessment Inventory. Multi-group analysis found that a model with four factors, somewhat different in structure to previous studies, was statistically different between Queensland primary and (lower)…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Educational Policy