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This article draws on several reviews that have documented known challenges for students when learning to use graphs in science contexts. It then illustrates these challenges with examples drawn from...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The water cycle is an important context for school science, but the uncritical use of diagrams to simplify ideas may lead to misconceptions. Incorporating learning about how representations such as...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2008_2_010.pdf | Content type: Set article
This article proposes that if we want students to care about and for the environment they need to develop an understanding of the "big picture"—that is, how the separate elements of a system interact...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This paper explores differences between scientists’ experiences of science and the investigations that are a common type of learning activity in school science. The first half of the paper makes a...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This small study provides some evidence that even at a young age, students are able to begin developing self-regulation skills in the context of science investigations.
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2005_2_038.pdf | Content type: Set article
The New Zealand Curriculum highlights the importance of learning to learn. This presents practical challenges to schools, in relation to shifts in teaching and learning practices. This article...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article uses a specific curriculum innovation—a focus on the nature of science—to illustrate the complex dynamics of curriculum change.
Snapshots from the professional learning of two...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2012_3_001.pdf | Content type: Set article