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Despite the considerable differences in the rates at which students learn, almost all pupils can satisfactorily understand and be proficient in school subjects.
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In recent years it has become a matter of orthodoxy that language programmes are necessary for children from poor homes and children from minority groups. One of the most influential of all...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Three short articles:
"In the real world you can't say cereal when you mean shampoo" by Virginia Makins
"Reading through the little screen" by Andree Brooks...
| Year published: 1978 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Maori and other Polynesian children underachieve in the New Zealand school system and educators have often suggested that more research is needed to find out why. More specifically, what skills do...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In the late 1950s programmed learning was set to revolutionise teaching. B. F. Skinner started the movement in 1954 with a provocative paper entitled 'The Science of Learning and the Art of...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As every teacher knows, in any normal classroom and whatever subject is being taught, there will be a wide range of individual differences in students' learning. Some will learn more quickly...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Homework is one of those things about which most people can speak from personal experience. This is either because they have done it as children, have set it as teachers, or have supervised it as...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Curriculum developers have in the past almost invariably structured and developed curricula from the perspective of the teacher. Our contention is that no matter what curriculum framework is...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Once upon a time there was a passerby who stopped to watch three workmen going about their labours on a building site. After a time he approached each of the workmen in turn and asked them what...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Children are not failures in the normative sense when they arrive at school but the process of labelling a child as a failure begins early in his school career. The early school years a:re...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article