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School computers can now provide very versatile and exciting ways for children to present cross-subject 'projects'. The learning, and what the teachers learnt too, was researched.
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Does the introduction of a new teaching technique help children learn? Would it be better to reduce class size, get a new teacher, send the children home? New statistical ways of...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
If people approve of us, then we approve of ourselves – our self-esteem grows. From the British equivalent of set we reprint this research on the ability of young children to rank...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Getting help from peers can make up for individual attention the teacher wishes she could give but just cannot manage. And giving help also improves the young tutor's work.
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
If you can't change the child perhaps you can change the school. Alternative schools for truants and offenders, called in New Zealand 'Activity Centres', are growing. Do they work? A...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The weather does have an effect on children's (mis)behaviour. Evidence from Britain puts rain, wind and temperature alongside referrals for 'time out' and comes up with a predictive...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As we write we construct knowledge, we manipulate information, we develop ourselves, and we get, as a bonus, the pleasure of authorship. Our writing develops and we use it for a wide range of...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
'The more socially unacceptable smoking becomes in adult society the more attractive it appears to the younger generation'. This was the comment of a South Auckland intermediate school principal...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
An everyday discussion involves an issue and a sense of argument and debate, examination and consideration. Hence we say that something is 'under consideration' or 'open to discussion' and mean that...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
No matter what we might like, home and school are held apart by lots of things. For example, by the fact that school is, in most cases, not just across the road. Or by the fact that school takes...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article