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This is the first of two articles about student inquiry and curriculum integration. These articles aim to help educators to consider the ideas about learning that underpin different integrated and...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Fractions are important mathematically and in everyday life but are complicated and difficult to learn. Teachers therefore need to be able to work out what students understand about fractions and...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How can teachers support students' additive thinking? This article focuses on the study of a lesson designed to teach the equal additions strategy for subtraction, in which many teachers, despite...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The implication that teachers with high expectations will improve student achievement has an appealing logic. However, whether or not the instructional practices and beliefs of teachers having high...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How well do our students learn what we set out to teach them? There are many opinions, but not enough facts. This article summarises the results of 35 years of international surveys of achievement in...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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
An Australian study of the reasons given by students for their academic success and failure.
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Despite New Zealand students performing well in reading and literacy there is some concern that boys, particularly nine-year-olds, are not performing as well as could be expected.
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Diagnostic information from the science assessment resource banks can provide valuable national information about what students know about a particular subject. This information can help teachers...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article