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This article deals with the philosophical issue of epistemology, or knowledge theory, in education as related to forms of learning, teaching methods and assessment in the language arts classroom,...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
This paper describes an instance of classroom assessment and then moves on to consider the ways that examples such as this may illustrate, and be informed by, the principles for curriculum decision...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article
Readers need to focus their attention on detail if they are to engage with big ideas. When a reader interprets details they produce knowledge; the production of knowledge allows them to gain insight...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article explores the value of listening to and heeding student voice. By doing so, teachers learn about the life experiences of students, and about how these contribute to the more formal...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
Teaching technology to very young students is achievable and is a valuable addition to their work in the classroom. There are teacher strategies and techniques that enable students to work in a more...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Students' attitudes to computers are shown to change after having access to one computer per two students in the class. However, the benefits of unlimited access can be limited by inadequate...
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
After extensive observation, this experienced educational researcher begins to answer the question "What is it that makes some activities work better in teaching literacy than others?" Reprinted from...
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How television can help with reading instruction.
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A very carefully run experiment in Ballarat High School shows definite benefits for schools like Ballarat H.S. These benefits, and critical comments, are detailed.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most children in school learn the meanings of more than a thousand new words each year. Yet few teachers deliberately set out to drill their pupils systematically on selected word lists. Nor do...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article