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At a typical secondary school the researchers discovered how successful the presentation of the science curriculum in discrete separately assessed units of work is. And discovered the (unhappy)...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Some schools are busy challenging the assumptions Richard White details in item No.7, particularly the assumption that children of equal age must all be taught the same curriculum, and...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Some children find listening and comprehending very difficult - all sorts of things get in the road. Susan Gray got students to tell her what those blocks are. Then she shows how they...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The school asked two 13-year-olds, expert in a computer programme, to teach the skills to two 16-year-olds. The researcher watched and asked questions. The result is a lively story and good advice...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
15 assumptions get in the way of good education. For example, teachers must punish but teachers must not punish. This item will make you think again.
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
New subjects and courses to interest and benefit senior secondary students who do not plan to go on to higher education have been introduced. This research studied two different...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As a guidance officer in a Queensland secondary school Kym Dickinson found herself spending a lot of time counselling because of teasing and bullying. A simple research project led to...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most high schools 'bend the rules' for some pupils. The obvious results are good: less truancy, less bad behaviour, even more work. But there are bad effects: rules set aside, 'make-...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A skilled detector of the art of putting things off reveals the techniques of 14-year-old Wayne and his partners, and shows how the clever teacher gets them working.
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Marks interfere with each other – your brilliantly fair assessments may be 'put-crook' by other equally just marks. Technical, but as readable as Le Carré, and much more important.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article