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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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Instituting Change in Classroom Discourse Structure: Human and Computer-Based Motif Analysis. WCER Working Paper No. 2009-1
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Nathan, Mitchell J.; Kim, Suyeon; Grant, Timothy S. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ3), 2009
We compared the structure of discussions in a middle school mathematics classroom before (Year 1) and after (Year 2) teacher participation in professional development activities aimed at enhancing students' participation and the co-construction of mathematical ideas. Changes in the role of teacher and student were accompanied by identifiable…
Descriptors: Teacher Participation, Faculty Development, Middle School Students, Secondary School Mathematics
Students' Conceptual Metaphors Influence Their Statistical Reasoning about Confidence Intervals. WCER Working Paper No. 2008-5
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Grant, Timothy S.; Nathan, Mitchell J. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2008
Confidence intervals are beginning to play an increasing role in the reporting of research findings within the social and behavioral sciences and, consequently, are becoming more prevalent in beginning classes in statistics and research methods. Confidence intervals are an attractive means of conveying experimental results, as they contain a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Intervals, Research Methodology, Figurative Language