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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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Learning (Not) to become a Teacher: A Qualitative Analysis of the Job Entrance Issue
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Rots, Isabel; Kelchtermans, Geert; Aelterman, Antonia – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
Reporting on 12 case studies of student teachers, this paper examines how experiences during teacher education affect graduates' decision on job entrance. Interpretative data-analysis reveals that powerful sources of the shift in motivation to enter teaching concern interactions in which the person of the teacher is at stake. These mainly involve…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Motivation, Self Concept, Professional Identity
Teacher Education and the Choice to Enter the Teaching Profession: A Prospective Study
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Rots, Isabel; Aelterman, Antonia; Devos, Geert; Vlerick, Peter – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This two-wave survey study aimed at testing a hypothetical model of teacher education graduates' decisions about whether or not to take a teaching position upon graduation. The model focuses on the relationship between teacher education and graduates' choice on job entrance. Using path analysis and logistic regression, this model was tested in a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Teaching (Occupation), Graduates
Teacher Education, Graduates' Teaching Commitment and Entrance into the Teaching Profession
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Rots, Isabel; Aelterman, Antonia; Vlerick, Peter; Vermeulen, Katrien – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2007
This study aimed to gain insight into the relationship between teacher education and graduating teachers (not) starting in the teaching profession (n=209). Predictor variables referred to teacher education, integration into teaching, and teaching commitment. To examine interrelationships between these variables, factors were also interlinked to…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Graduates, Teacher Education, Teacher Effectiveness
ICT Teacher Training: Evaluation of the Curriculum and Training Approach in Flanders
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Valcke, Martin; Rots, Isabel; Verbeke, Marjolein; van Braak, Johan – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2007
A policy-evaluation study was set up of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) teacher training in Flanders, focusing on the following questions: (a) What is the validity of the content and format of the teacher training, and (b) to what extent is the ICT teacher training linked to policies of schools? In-depth interviews were organised…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Information Technology, Teacher Education, Foreign Countries