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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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Designing and Testing Evaluation Tools to Inform Foundation Education Reforms and Build Grantee Capacity. WCER Working Paper No. 2010-1
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Kimball, Steven M.; Lander, Rachel; Thorn, Christopher A. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2010
Beginning in 2002, The Chicago Community Trust embarked on an ambitious grant- making strategy to improve education outcomes primarily in the city of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois. Known as The Education Initiative, this effort focused on three priority grant areas: literacy, professional development, and alternative models of schools. In…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Urban Schools, Philanthropic Foundations, Grants
Cyberinfrastructure and Scientific Collaboration: Application of a Virtual Team Performance Framework with Potential Relevance to Education. WCER Working Paper No. 2010-12
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Kraemer, Sara; Thorn, Christopher A. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2010
The purpose of this exploratory study was to identify and describe some of the dimensions of scientific collaborations using high throughput computing (HTC) through the lens of a virtual team performance framework. A secondary purpose was to assess the viability of using a virtual team performance framework to study scientific collaborations using…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Focus Groups, Teamwork, Group Dynamics
Longitudinal Data Systems to Support Data-Informed Decision Making: A Tri-State Partnership between Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. WCER Working Paper No. 2006-1
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Thorn, Christopher A.; Meyer, Robert H. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2006
The U.S. Department of Education recently held a competition for grants to support states in their efforts to build longitudinal data systems to track and analyze student and school performance. The Value-Added Research Center (VARC) at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, proposed a Tri-State Partnership…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Data Analysis, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
Data Use in the School and Classroom: The Challenges of Implementing Data-Based Decision Making Inside Schools. WCER Working Paper No. 2002-2
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Thorn, Christopher A. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2002
Systemic efforts to implement data-based decision making at the school and classroom level face several challenges. First, most data available within district information systems are limited to what has been deemed important for the operational needs of schools and the district. Second, educational organizations have little experience integrating…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Accountability, Data, Information Needs