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Children know a great deal of mathematics before they come to school. They have a variety of ways of interpreting and solving problems about quantities, but of course there are wide differences in...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Language learning helps language learning. The more rich and varied the language experience we give deaf children, the more they can organise experiences into further language learning. Learning a...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Decoding has always been controversial. Rather than an ally, it has often been seen as the enemy of comprehension. The problem is that poor comprehenders are usually poor decoders as welt which...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Children should learn how to learn. Nowadays we hope school will teach that, above all else. Here is a second example of how it can be encouraged; the first was Item 11 in set No.1,...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Contrasting the way chimps and young children learn gives an insight into a stage, most noticeable about the time children start school, when earlier ‘success’ is followed by ‘failure...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set1994_2_002.pdf | Content type: Set article
Research shows that a new computerised learning system can lead to a 20-month gain in maths skills in six months and improve pupils' behaviour.
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The Good Talk project investigated how to develop children’s skills more effectively in the Interpersonal Speaking and Listening Achievement Objectives in English, and in some of the Essential Skill...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Ngā Kete Kōrero (The Language Baskets), a national research study commissioned by the Ministry of Māori Development Te Puni Kōkiri in 1993, has provided comprehensive information about the...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Despite New Zealand being a water-loving nation, we do not have a good track record when it comes to water safety. Last year the New Zealand Council for Educational Research surveyed schools to...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2010_3_022.pdf | Content type: Set article