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An understanding of validity, reliability and usability are a must for all test users. The validity of a test is an indication of how well it measures what the author claims it will measure; its...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Despite the considerable differences in the rates at which students learn, almost all pupils can satisfactorily understand and be proficient in school subjects.
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
These are comments from the noted Sociologist, Willard Waller, in 1932. After 50 years and nearly 500 research papers there seems to have been little change. Indeed, in recent literature one...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
It describes different types of solvent abuse, lists some of the signs and symptoms of sniffing, and makes some practical suggestions about ways of dealing with sniffing 'epidemics'. It is...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Pupils with IQs in the range 70- 90 are usually in regular secondary school classes. They make up some 5% to 10% of the average first year high school intake. Such pupils are frequently reported...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
We have all had the experience at some time of being given a good test which has been ruined or just made less 'do-able' by clumsy layout and unsatisfactory reproduction. Poor layout and...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In recent years an increasing number of teachers have found the "Cioze Procedure" an asset in their reading programmes. Some use it for assessing the level of their students' reading...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Why are there so many behaviour problems in children these days? Do they reflect falling values and standards in society and a breakdown in authority and discipline at home and in school? Are they...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Despite pessimistic American findings, a new Bristol University study suggests that, in certain circumstances, individual schools can make a significant contribution to their pupils'...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Last year the Hamilton branch of the New Zealand Association for Gifted Children produced a radio programme, broadcast by 1YW Hamilton, on the gifted child and the school situation. The...
| Year published: 1978 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article