In the first major and impartial evaluation of boarding school education, Royston Lambert and his co-workers have thrown valuable new light on the long-term effects of boarding on a large sample of English school boys. Starting in 1964, Lambert set out to study the different styles of residential education in ...

Developmental psychology is a discipline that proceeds on few facts and many hypotheses, but just about all developmental psychologists agree on two basic assumptions: first, environmental factors help determine how fast or slowly children's cognitive ability -what most of us call intelligence -develops and, second, experiences during the first years ...

During the early part of the 20th century the term 'gifted' was a label given to those of superior ability, and it has continued to be used in this general way ever since. However, when used in this manner it is not really a definition, for it defines neither the ...

These scales are designed to obtain teacher estimates of a student's characteristics in the areas of learning, motivation, creativity, and leadership. The items are derived from the research literature dealing with characteristics of gifted and creative persons.

Considering the world wide trend towards co-educational secondary schooling since the Second World War, it is surprising that the question of co-education has remained a subject for research. Over the past 50 years English researchers have shown the most consistent interest in this topic and the movement towards co-educational comprehensive ...

Television has been in New Zealand living rooms for over 15 years, and many children now spend more time watching the screen than they spend in school. We go to considerable lengths to assess the effects of schooling on our children. Can we also assess the effects of television?

Growing public support for scientific medical research has been one of the most gratifying  developments in New Zealand since World War II. Such research has, in its turn, led to a greater sophistication in a medical profession no longer willing to limit its activity to mere service. And nowhere is ...

PAT : Mathematics

What can be done with the results?

Is it possible to teach and do research at the same time? The work of a number of Christ church teachers strongly suggests that it is. In this report, John Church, Lecturer in Education at the University of Canterbury, outlines the research accomplishments of some of the teachers who have ...