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By examining the notion of student participation in learning as a key element of achieving positive outcomes for learning and the environment, this article looks at the power relationship between...
This article reports on the analysis of a videotape of four children participating in a group mathematical task. The authors discuss the ways that the context, social organisation, and resources...
What might a "fun" and "interesting" curriculum entail from the pupils' point of view? The author draws on findings from a review of the research undertaken in the UK on pupils' perspectives and...
Literature provides a strong case for the importance of teachers caring about their students' mathematics achievement, and provides a wide range of ways teachers can show such care to their...
In recent years, a number of countries including New Zealand have initiated numeracy projects to enhance the learning and teaching of mathematics. These initiatives are to be applauded as they...
Critical literacy is a critical thinking tool that encourages readers to question the construction and production of texts. This article discusses the findings from a collaborative research...
In recent years, the cries for teachers to have high expectations for all their students have been heard far and wide—yet, research in the expectancy area carried out at the whole class level has...
The implication that teachers with high expectations will improve student achievement has an appealing logic. However, whether or not the instructional practices and beliefs of teachers having...
This article describes how a teacher in a high school classroom facilitated her students' acquisition and use of the specialist language of mathematics. Using ideas from second language...
Can teachers themselves answer the questions they ask the children in their classrooms as part of instructional literacy programmes? This article explores the results of a Phonological Awareness...
Measurement scales allow raw test scores to be converted to locations on an equal-interval scale. This article outlines how these work, how they are numbered and how they relate to national...