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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
Analysing the pattern of incorrect answers to Assessment Resource Bank items is providing valuable diagnostic information. This can enable teachers to identify roadblocks to student understanding and...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2000_1_040.pdf | Content type: Set article
The requirement to report school entry assessment data to the Ministry of Education makes SEA a high stakes activity. But how well is it working? In this study, all teachers raised concerns such as...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article reports on research from two surveys: one which investigated the prevalence of students with emotional/behavioural disorders; the other investigated students' views on schoolwork,...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most children have trouble understanding decimals - they confuse them with whole numbers or with fractions. Here are some concrete suggestions for how children can use their everyday knowledge to...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There is growing pressure for all teachers to become teachers of values. Here are some ways in which mathematics teachers can incorporate values education into their existing mathematics programme...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article