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This article explains how to use percentiles in interpreting test results, and decision making about teaching and learning.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article describes how a teacher in a high school classroom facilitated her students' acquisition and use of the specialist language of mathematics. Using ideas from second language acquisition,...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article reports on the analysis of a videotape of four children participating in a group mathematical task. The authors discuss the ways that the context, social organisation, and resources of...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article presents results from a national survey on the extent, nature, and effectiveness of planned approaches for identifying and providing for gifted and talented students. Recent national...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Instruction can help students develop a richer understanding of estimation and a wider range of strategies.
The students in this study started with a fairly limited understanding of estimation,...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2005_1_048.pdf | Content type: Set article
In an exploratory study that raises questions for the future teaching of problem solving, algebra, and context-based problems, Year 12 students were questioned about their thought processes while...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Keeping a journal in the mathematics classroom has clear benefits. In this study a group of students kept journals on their mathematics lessons and were found to become more regular and deeper...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2005_2_050.pdf | Content type: Set article
A critical component in the development of students' statistical thinking and reasoning is transnumerative thinking; that is, changing representations of data to engender an understanding of observed...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
A research project looking at Māori student participation and achievement in science and mathematics education examined four junior secondary school programmes that targeted Māori in these subject...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The quality of teacher feedback to students has a considerable impact on student achievement. This research evaluates the quality of feedback given to primary students during numeracy lessons...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article