This study is a two-year multi-method study of current classroom assessment practices in New Zealand schools.  The first phase has documented assessment practices at Years 5, 7, and 9 in the key areas of English and mathematics.  The second phase will expand on this information through case-studies that document "good assessment practice".

Given the current educational environment and recent NZ government initiatives, it seemed timely to collect base-line data which ...

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.

The paper gives an overview of the secondary sector in New Zealand and the reforms of the 1990s, describing the links between educational research, policy, and practice during this time.

Paper presented at the Regional Seminar on Education Research for Policy and Practice, Tokyo, 2-7 October, 2000.

This paper provides an overview of research carried out for a doctoral thesis "Learning to transfer: The distance learner and transfer of learning" (Doyle, 2002). The thesis explored the question of transfer of learning from the perspective of distance students enrolled in a business degree.

Paper presented at the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) conference, Auckland, 29 November to 3 December 2003.

This paper presents an example of a modest educational design innovation (Bereiter and Scardamalia, 2008). Compared with the lifelong literacy project discussed in the first presentation in this symposium (Twist and Hipkins, 2009) this is a short discrete piece of research designed to explore a specific working hypothesis. The focus is on just one of the five key competencies in the New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007). Using language ...

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.

The term 'progress', as it is usually used, means moving in a particular direction in order to arrive somewhere. In educational contexts, students 'make progress' by passing through—and successfully completing—a series of developmental stages. Step by step, they come to know and be able to do more—and harder—things. This concept of progress is, however, the product of a particular period in history, and a particular set of cultural understandings. This ...

Over the last few years more attention has been paid to evidence-based policy, and to using research data to inform the ongoing development of education practice. This has led to a significant increase in contract research and evaluation designed to contribute to the evidence base, and in policy makers working more closely with researchers to generate new understanding.

Paper presented at the NZCER seminar: Making the most of research in ...

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 ...

The purpose of this study was to identify the strategies one teacher used to support her Years 5 and 6 students develop self-regulating behaviours. How her students responded to these strategies and how they influenced students’ emerging self-regulating behaviours were also identified.

The study was carried out within the context of the written language strand of the English curriculum, and required the students to explore and write persuasive texts.

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