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Teachers are almost universally agreed that large classes "are exhausting, a cause of frustration, and a reason for failure in basic subjects". Their views about what constitutes a...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As teachers, we should be clear why we are testing. We should not test just because it is always done. Certainly, tests often do help motivate students to work harder. But the results can be...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What can a teacher, faced by the problem of helping immigrant second-language pupils in his or her class, learn from recent research? One important research project has made us aware of the sort...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Ages, Stages, Classes, Years, Grades, and Systems compared
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Concern about disruptive behaviour has increased dramatically in the last decade. Three reasons are often put forward for this.
(i) Disruptive behaviour in schools is the inevitable...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Moral education is important for developing good mental health. Ours is a pluralistic society in that different groups seek different goals and operate from different values. Therefore, we have to...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most teachers are probably just as curious about what goes on in other classrooms as they are about what goes on in their own. But generally we do not get much opportunity to observe our...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As every teacher knows, in any normal classroom and whatever subject is being taught, there will be a wide range of individual differences in students' learning. Some will learn more quickly...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most of the findings of research into teaching and learning seem fairly self-evident. Good teachers know about them almost intuitively and may be disappointed that educational researchers have not...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There are three major methods of determining how readable (i.e. understandable) prose is.
1. The teacher, from experience, makes an estimate Teacher Estimates.
2. The pupil tries reading it (...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article