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A look at some factors in the selection and training of primary teachers, with some suggestions for a radical change in approach.
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
It is a cliche to talk about 'the information explosion' but it is a fact, nonetheless, that in the last 30 years or so new knowledge has been accumulating at a faster and faster rate. It...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
One of the most interesting and remarkable developments in education during the 1960s and 70s was the growth of the teachers' centre movement. A British invention, it almost immediately...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In Christchurch the number of Pacific Island children is small, they live in every area of the city, from 'working class industrial' to 'middle-class suburban', and most are New...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Women are under-represented in senior positions in both the primary and the secondary teaching services. But why? Judy Whitcombe has been conducting a research project in the Department of...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How much of a child's development is influenced by the school he attends? Barbara Maughan and Janet Ouston- two of the research workers involved in the publication of the widely acclaimed...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
An understanding of validity, reliability and usability are a must for all test users. The validity of a test is an indication of how well it measures what the author claims it will measure; its...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A test evaluation sheet for teachers.
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Despite the considerable differences in the rates at which students learn, almost all pupils can satisfactorily understand and be proficient in school subjects.
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
These are comments from the noted Sociologist, Willard Waller, in 1932. After 50 years and nearly 500 research papers there seems to have been little change. Indeed, in recent literature one...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article