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The introduction of information skills into the New Zealand Curriculum has signalled a change in direction for education from teacher-centred learning to student-centred learning. However, before...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There is growing pressure for all teachers to become teachers of values. Here are some ways in which mathematics teachers can incorporate values education into their existing mathematics programme...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Mathematics is more than numbers and measurement. It is a way of thinking which allows concepts to be built up; problems to be explored and solved; conjectures to be made and examined; and complex...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There is a common perception in Australian schools that social studies is one of the learning areas least liked by students. This research looked at the attitudes of students at primary schools, and...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There are differences between schools in terms of location, size, growth rates, and characteristics of their student populations. Are any of these characteristics related to the learning and teaching...
| Year published: 1998 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Research into why six subject departments that appeared to be adding significantly more to pupil's achievements than might be expected from their intake found they share a number of things in common...
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
With the focus in mathematics teaching moving away from the mastery of skills and facts towards the understanding and making sense of mathematics, it is not always appropriate to "test" knowledge at...
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Being ready, willing, and able to learn are important attributes for four-year-olds. Can early childhood centres encourage persistence?
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
Research into the use of Beginning School Mathematics shows that the resource must be used flexibly and creatively in order to achieve the best mathematics learning amongst junior school children.
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teaching is one of the professions where dissatisfaction with various aspects of preparation for the profession as well as the on-going professional practice has stimulated a range of changes and...
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article