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| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In this article, Yvonne, a junior school teacher, describes how she decided to explore how key competencies could be integrated into the daily programme, and assessed, without creating extra workload...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There is limited research to support our understanding of values implementation in New Zealand schools. This article draws on findings from a recent Teaching and Learning Research...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In term 3, 2012, 22 teacher-assessors collected data from 5,000 children in 200 schools around the country. The information they collected will inform the education community in New Zealand...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
From time to time the New Zealand Council for Educational Research is asked how test results can contribute to making an Overall Teacher Judgement (OTJ). This is an important and complex question and...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Test scores reduce complex phenomena, such as achievement in mathematics or ability to comprehend a written text, to numbers. If a test has done a good job of testing what it was designed to assess,...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Peer assessment is now considered a necessary and vital strategy to be embedded within an assessment for learning framework. Grounded in teachers’ practice, this article pays particular attention to...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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 literature about 21st century learning argues that we need to think differently about education. Rather than simply “knowing about” things, we want students to be able to do new things with what...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Assessment in schools is often concerned with generating student-achievement information in specific learning areas. However, we can use assessment techniques to collect a wider range of information...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article