Legibility research has been going on for two hundred years and it has discovered some useful pointers for anyone who is writing down words, or selecting words, to be put in front of anyone learning.
When a book designer is at work his trade, called typography, is an art: but ...

Most children begin school expecting to learn to read. If this expectation is not met, if they have problems with reading, they may develop a dislike for reading, or just a hopeless feeling about it. The reading problem and the poor attitude to it aggravate each other, and this can ...

Subscribe, or better still have the school subscribe, to one of the half dozen or more journals devoted to reading. But be aware: some journals specialise in one area of reading or specialise in research studies rather than articles dealing with the teaching or improvement of reading. The following notes ...

A fable

Voluntary individual tuition for adults with acute problems in reading, writing and spelling is not new. It has always gone on quietly for a few people in a scattered and isolated way. What has changed in the 1970 s is that New Zealanders are starting to realise the scale of ...

Discovery-learning and the information explosion both require that children have study skills. What exactly are these skills and how can they be taught?

In Ypsilanti, Michigan a project has been underway since 1962. It now shows that significantly more of those who had pre-schooling have jobs, stay out of prison, and so on.

Using research findings from the United States which throw light on family stress Professor Bronfenbrenner draws conclusions for New Zealand and points ways ahead. An address given at the second Early Childhood Care and Development Convention, Christchurch, August 1979.

It never takes very long to discover what a secondary school student's attitude to a school subject is. Typically the reply will be in the current idiom and mean either totally enjoyable or totally unenjoyable. It is more difficult to find out exactly what it is about the subject that ...

Maori and other Polynesian children underachieve in the New Zealand school system and educators have often suggested that more research is needed to find out why. More specifically, what skills do Maori and other Polynesian children lack that results in their lower educational achievement? The results of recent research on ...