What are the essential elements to motivate students and bring about positive outcomes for all? This article briefly explores some of the conceptual models developed to help teachers work with young people who present challenging behaviours. It advocates an approach based on a modification of Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) ecological model, now ...

Researchers and practitioners around the world have been working on understanding the nature of bullying and finding practical and useful solutions for dealing with it. This overview of their work aims to provide food for thought for New Zealand teachers and schools intending to initiate or refine a programme to ...

Welcome to the second issue of set for the year 2000. The response to the first issue has been exceptional. Clearly, the new format and the New Zealand content have met with approval from all sectors of the education community. The response is a clear mandate to continue in the ...

In Britain, new national testing and assessment procedures have shown girls outperforming boys across most areas of the curriculum, though girls continue to underachieve in some key areas. Boys also present the majority of behavioural and learning problems, as they do in New Zealand. A wide range of forces is ...

New NZCER Information Skills tests explore students’ understanding of the information skills involved in using libraries, parts of a book, and reference sources. They provide strong evidence that students are experiencing difficulty with sorting through the various dimensions of a search task in order to select the volume, page, or ...

The requirement to report school entry assessment data to the Ministry of Education makes SEA a high stakes activity. But how well is it working? In this study, all teachers raised concerns such as timing, how to manage SEA tasks in the classroom, and how dependable the scoring is. Critical ...

The National Education Monitoring Project has taken up the challenge of assessing what children can do in groups. Using tasks in science, language and technology, this NEMP study showed that while boys and girls both disliked being in a minority of one, overall, a shared goal united groups and reduced ...

The first edition of set: Research Information for Teachers for the new century marks a fresh beginning for NZCER’s long-established journal for teachers working in New Zealand schools. This is the first edition which concentrates almost solely on New Zealand issues for New Zealand teachers, and while future editions may ...

Study of student teachers' knowledge and attitudes towards Australian indigenous people which gives an indication of the sorts of stereotypes and misconceptions about indigenous people which teachers are likely to need to address in their classrooms.

Today's educational leaders are faced with the task of solving complex problems. The author suggests that if principals understand how they have learnt educational management, what they have learnt, and how to analyse their school community to identify their own learning needs, they will be better able to rethink ways ...