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How you assess partly depends on your notion of what writing is for. But the accuracy of the assessment depends on clearly distinguishing different characteristics, from planning to...
| Year published: 1991 | 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
Finding out how much your pupils know - how many points they can recall, the number of words mis-spelled, the number of problems solved correctly - this is comparatively easy and there is an...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Essays written in a 'good hand' get better marks than those written in a 'poor' hand. That was discovered over 50 years ago. Perhaps the computer will eradicate the influence of handwriting on the...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A man once owned a dog which was inclined to jump over the back fence and enjoy the delights of the neighbourhood. Deciding that he needed a new fence around his yard, the man was confronted with the...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
PAT: Study Skills measures some of the most important skills we teach; skills that give children the capacity to learn on their own. However, as study skills are imbedded in every subject in the...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Handwriting is a skill very similar to playing tennis or Space Invaders. It is complex and strategies need to be learnt if you want to do it well. But for fun, learning handwriting the conventional...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (lEA) Written Composition Study is a survey of essay writing in 15 countries; Australia, Chile, England, Germany (Hamburg...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Research into children’s understanding of number over the last decade suggests that there are identifiable progressions in how children develop number concepts. The Early Numeracy Project included a...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
PAT : Mathematics
What can be done with the results?
| Year published: 1975 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article