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The focus of this article is the strategies that young children use to find the volume of rectangular prisms. Children were observed during teaching sessions and their solutions to follow-up...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Accessing children’s understandings through traditional methods of assessment can be problematic for teachers. This article explores how the use of drawings by a group of Year 5 children to answer...
| Year published: 2006 | 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
When a teacher let her Years 4 and 5 class chose their own science topic to study, they settled on—what else?—farting. This article shows how letting students pursue their own interests led them to...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Talk about Books is an oral language programme that involves intensive work by teacher aides with individual children. The results of the study outlined in this article show that it effectively...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
When their funds of knowledge and experiences from home and the community are connected to their school learning, students' learning is supported. In this study teachers used "home learning books" to...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article describes one primary school’s approach to countering the “summer drop” in reading achievement. By the deliberate sharing of strategies to support reading at home during the holidays...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The focus section of this issue of set is a collection of articles that discuss various aspects of key competency development in the early primary school years. These articles were selected from a...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article explores the shift from “essential skills” to “key competencies” in the school curriculum. Drawing on information gathered from teacher interviews and observations at a New Zealand...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
An interpretive case study approach was used to investigate teachers’ understanding of the purpose and nature of social studies education and how teachers plan and develop their social studies...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article