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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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Gallagher, Carmel; Hipkins, Rosemary; Zohar, Anat – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2012
Over the past decade there has been a major move to position "thinking" (however thinking is defined and enacted) as a more explicit outcome within the curriculum of many nations, with implications for teachers' professional development, assessment, and examination requirements. This paper analyses approaches to this challenge taken by Israel, New…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills, National Curriculum, Educational Assessment
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Zohar, Anat – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2008
Like other countries, Israel had its share of projects that see the implementation of inquiry and higher order thinking in schools as their main goal. However, although many of these projects were quite successful, they did not succeed in changing the bulk of teaching and learning in Israeli schools. This article describes a new national…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Thinking Skills
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Barzilai, Sarit; Zohar, Anat – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2006
This study revisits a classic yet still intriguing question regarding information technology (IT): what difference does IT "really" make, in terms of people's thinking? In order to explore this question, the effects of IT in authentic research settings were studied through retrospective interviews with 24 academic researchers. Analysis of the…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Cognitive Processes, Educational Researchers, Information Processing