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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
The implication that teachers with high expectations will improve student achievement has an appealing logic. However, whether or not the instructional practices and beliefs of teachers having high...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How well do our students learn what we set out to teach them? There are many opinions, but not enough facts. This article summarises the results of 35 years of international surveys of achievement in...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Recent research on school improvement indicates that schools can lift student achievement by using achievement information to work out how to modify their programmes. Robertson Rd School worked...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Faced with the tom-tom beat of competitive marketing, there is a strong interest in what makes for a "good" school rather than a "hyped up" school. This study looks at how two value-added schools...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The 1996 National School English Literacy Survey is unique among national literacy surveys in that it was based on a broad definition of literacy; teachers were central to the collection of...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Longitudinal study which asked: Does multiage grouping make a difference to the students in terms of their learning environment or their social adjustment?
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
If you left school without much in the way of formal qualifications, how do you get back to study? Bridging courses may help. The success of one such course in South Australia was...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
We often 'cheat' by giving marks higher than the quality of the work requires. Our motives are good – often it is to avoid discouraging the 'trier'. But does it pay off?
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Homework is tradition that has survived waves of enthusiasm and of disenchantment. The famous report in the USA called A Nation at Risk, prescribed 'more homework' as one remedy for education's many...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: Set1988_1_015.pdf | Content type: Set article