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This article outlines the implications for teachers of the findings from a comparative study of students’ editing skills and processes when using word processors and pencils to write. An overview of...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The focus of this article is the strategies that young children use to find the volume of rectangular prisms. Children were observed during teaching sessions and their solutions to follow-up...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Accessing children’s understandings through traditional methods of assessment can be problematic for teachers. This article explores how the use of drawings by a group of Year 5 children to answer...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This small study provides some evidence that even at a young age, students are able to begin developing self-regulation skills in the context of science investigations.
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2005_2_038.pdf | Content type: Set article
At Westburn Primary School, Christchurch, the author worked with Years 1–4 children on a devised theatre work for a formal production. The fundamental principles of devising theatre inform discussion...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In 2006, we looked at how primary school were getting on with the planning and reporting requirements which came into place in 2003. Thank you to the 180 principals and 279 teachers who took part in...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The skills of oral narrative and phonological awareness are seen as precursors and predictors of reading development. In this study of bilingual Māori primary school students, Fleur Harris found that...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2009_3_11.pdf | Content type: Set article
Schools and teachers are expected to respond appropriately when they encounter children acting sexually. This article describes the literature on child sexual development and behaviour and the...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
When a teacher let her Years 4 and 5 class chose their own science topic to study, they settled on—what else?—farting. This article shows how letting students pursue their own interests led them to...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Talk about Books is an oral language programme that involves intensive work by teacher aides with individual children. The results of the study outlined in this article show that it effectively...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article