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What might a "fun" and "interesting" curriculum entail from the pupils' point of view? The author draws on findings from a review of the research undertaken in the UK on pupils' perspectives and...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article explores the perceptions of parents/caregivers, teachers, and students in an intermediate school about the success of this approach to reporting on learning.
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This New Zealand study proposes that the ethos and culture of schools can be a major protective factor in helping children to cope with violent and traumatic events. Implications for teachers are...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This research shows that focusing on peer and teacher talk about Year 5 and 6 students’ scripts creates significant increases in the quality of the students’ written language. Students’ initial...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In a thought-provoking piece, Keith Ballard traces some of the recent changes in the language of education and raises questions about the implications for teachers and teaching.
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Ros McLellan reports on a 10-term UK project "Raising Boys’ Achievement". She gives an overview of the research and offers a framework for thinking about strategies that have the potential to raise...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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