The Assessment Resource Banks (ARBs) are computerised banks of assessment material that are available on the Internet. They are linked to the current New Zealand curriculum statements in mathematics, science, and English. This paper introduces the ARBs. It is followed by a description of the diagnostic potential of the ARBs. The final part is an interactive discussion of the diagnostic dimension of a selection of resources from the mathematics ARB.
The full journal article is published in:
Mathematics magazine, 38 (1), May 2001. p. 29-38
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Publication type: Journal article
10 June 2011
Publication type: Journal article
The Assessment Resource Banks (ARBs) in English, mathematics, and science have been designed to reflect current New Zealand curriculum statements and provide schools with an ever-increasing range of valid and reliable assessment material. They are available on the Internet and are now established as the main source of school-based assessment material for New Zealand schools.
10 June 2011
Publication type: Journal article
Descriptive content - the 'what' of science - has become the neglected component of science education, to the detriment of many learners' ability to link science theories to their direct experience of the natural world.
10 June 2011
Publication type: Journal article
This article argues that the rights of childen should be at the heart of early childhood education policy development. It describes the free market framework inherited by the current government, highlights inequalities for children in income and participation in early childhood education, and describes policy initiatives. These are analysed against yardsticks for effective government policy for children.
10 June 2011
Publication type: Journal article
In December 2001, Auckland Metropolitan College (Metro), the only state-funded alternative secondary school in New Zealand, closed after eight highly critical ERO reviews in eight years. Despite support from its own community, other schools, and the Schools Support Programme, Metro closed amidst long-standing confusion over its status and role in the New Zealand education system.
10 June 2011
Publication type: Conference paper
The paper outlines the range of English resources now in the ARBs and discusses their school-based uses. The particular advantages of the ARBs for school-based assessment and future areas of development within the English banks are also considered.
Paper presented at the 27th annual conference of the International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA), Rio de Janeiro, 6-11 May 2001.
9 June 2011
Publication type: Conference paper
There is much that tertiary institutions can usefully do to assist secondary school students' awareness and understanding of current options and possibilities for study and careers. Here are some pointers.
Paper presented at IIR conference on Marketing Education, Auckland, 27 June 2001.
9 June 2011
Publication type: Conference paper
This paper uses analysis from the longitudinal Competent Children/Learners project that shows substantial television use at earlier ages can weaken children's literacy development at age 10.
It explores the reasons why this might be so in terms of the patterns of children's time use, and research on the visual nature of television and the language and narrative forms it uses. Relations between age-10 children's current and previous use of computers and their reading comprehension levels was less marked.
9 June 2011
Publication type: Research report
This report details the findings from a two-stage multi-method study which focused on the editing skills, processes, and tools used by 96 students, at three year levels, from two schools, and how these impacted on their writing. The student data were analysed by writing mode (computer or pencil), gender, literacy level (high or low), and year level (Year 3/4, 5, or 7).
The main findings from this study were that:
8 June 2011
Publication type: Literature review
This review looks at the evidence from studies of the various trials and bulk funding schemes for schools in New Zealand, and the impact of New Zealand's decentralisation reforms, to gauge the likely impact for Māori of bulk funding of schools.
8 June 2011