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Ros McLellan reports on a 10-term UK project "Raising Boys’ Achievement". She gives an overview of the research and offers a framework for thinking about strategies that have the potential to raise...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article is not intended to be a series of handy hints on choosing between specific brands of microcomputers or different word processing programs. That sort of information is best obtained from...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article gives findings from the Iceberg project—conducted with students who were bereaved when they were of school age—reviews the background to childhood bereavement, and examines how children...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
We know that children learn better when they are supported during new learning by someone who is more expert than they are. At a multi-cultural school in one of the five most “at risk” areas in...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This summary of an extensive literature review highlights the different ways in which peers influence learning, and describes classroom approaches that maximise these peer effects. Learning is...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Supportive friendships and relationships at school contribute to children’s quality of life as well as their learning. There are some concerns that students with disabilities may be isolated, lonely...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How can research findings can be used to develop specific teaching approaches? This UK article concentrates on the potential of shared and guided writing for improving syntactical structure and...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Results of a study of literacy achievement data covering 1194 children turning six between January and August 2000, from 54 schools in the lower part of the North Island, show gender and ethnicity...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Guided reading is a key component of classroom literacy programmes in New Zealand. The Ministry of Education guidelines on how teachers should take guided reading sessions for emergent and early...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Each year, the National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP) engages teachers to work intensively with children administering a wide range of assessment tasks, and to mark children’s recorded...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article