Research shows that children from large families, especially later born children, can be disadvantaged in a number of ways.

Despite pessimistic American findings, a new Bristol University study suggests that, in certain circumstances, individual schools can make a significant contribution to their pupils' achievements.

Whereas it is expedient to make further and better provision for the education of the people in the Colony of New Zealand:
Be It Therefore Enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1. The Short Title of ...

NZCER's familiar Progressive Achievement Test series will shortly be extended as the Council launches its fifth set -the PAT: Study Skills Tests.
Since the first PAT tests were released in 1969, the demands for the tests from classroom teachers have been very high.
Developed and standardized over a three year ...

In recent years an increasing number of teachers have found the "Cioze Procedure" an asset in their reading programmes. Some use it for assessing the level of their students' reading comprehension; others have made diagnostic use of it, by examining unusual responses made by their pupils; others again have found ...

In 1951, the World Health Organisation published a report by John Bowlby entitled Maternal Care and Mental Health. In that report Bowlby reviewed a variety of research studies concerning children in institutions such as orphanages and foundling homes, and he assessed the effect of these circumstances on the children's subsequent ...

Is bilingualism a handicap? The literature on the effects of bilingualism on the intelligence, linguistic proficiency, and mental health of bilingual individuals is vast, complex and contradictory. The perusal of almost any random collection of articles, treatises, and opinions on the topic would lead most lay readers to the conclusion ...

There are a number of children in New Zealand who, during their pre-school years regularly use a language other than English. They use it at home with their parents, and at play with their siblings and with many of their friends. When these children enter school at the age of ...

Founded 47 years ago, the Australian Council for Educational Research has grown from a staff of two in 1930 to about ninety today. Under its first two directors, Dr K.S. Cunningham (1930-1954) and Dr Wm. C. Radford (1955-1976) it has established a reputation as an independent national organisation that offers ...