National monitoring

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NZCER Press

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NZCER Press

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Journal articles about National monitoring

The latest ten articles from our journals on this subject.

Reliability of individual teacher administrator practices during national monitoring assessment interviews in social studies

Eleanor M. Hawe and Isabel R. Browne

Assessment Matters 3: 2011

116

Since 1995, New Zealand’s National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP) has been responsible for the national assessment of students’ achievement in each of the learning areas in the curriculum. One of the assessment approaches used by NEMP is the one-to-one student interview. This paper addresses variation within individual teacher administrators’ practice as they conducted interviews during the 2005 round of monitoring in social studies.

Book review: Teaching Secondary School Mathematics and Statistics: Evidence-based Practice, R. Averill and R. Harvey (Eds.)

Kevin Hannah

Curriculum Matters 5 : 2009

138

In their introductory acknowledgements to this two-volume set, editors Robin Averill and Roger Harvey recall that the initial idea behind the books was to create a suitable text for secondary mathematics initial teacher education programmes, modelling the structure around the very successful editorial efforts of Jim Neyland with Mathematics Education: A Handbook for Teachers. I expect the audience will be more numerous than that intention implied.

National consultation on exemplars: What difference does it make for teachers?

Jenny Poskitt

set 2002: no. 3

Earlier this year 225 primary, intermediate and secondary schools took part in a national consultation on the draft national exemplars. Schools effectively trialled the exemplars and provided feedback on their quality and usefulness. The results, though mixed, were generally positive, and have influenced the ongoing development of national exemplars. They also have implications for the professional development of teachers when the national exemplars are implemented in 2003.

Measuring the Effects of Schooling

John Hattie

set 1993: no. 2

Does the introduction of a new teaching technique help children learn? Would it be better to reduce class size, get a new teacher, send the children home? New statistical ways of summing up what research tells us.