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This article draws primarily on a policy discussion hosted by the New Zealand Association of Research in Education’s (NZARE) Science Special Interest Group at the 2016 national conference, arguing...
| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
This article begins by making the case that the New Zealand curriculum component known as the Nature of Science (NOS) has generally not, thus far, achieved its stated intent of helping...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
The science education team at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) has designed two new online student surveys, one for Years 0–4 and one for Years 5–10. They...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2015_1_067.pdf | Content type: Set article
The New Zealand Government’s National Science Challenges have recently generated renewed activity on how education, science and the public can better engage with each other, for the benefit...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
This article reports how two first-year student teachers have used their initial teacher education programme experiences in science education to gain a better understanding of The New...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
There’s a lot that primary school teachers can do to help develop their students’ science learning. This article sets out straightforward possibilities, including encouraging students to observe the...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Two Years 7/8 teachers planned, implemented and reflected on teaching a unit about erosion and landforms with the support of ICT tools. They used videos, photos, animations and digital microscopes—as...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Lab work is the unique feature of a science education. Most of the physical and biological sciences are essentially empirical - research is conducted, knowledge is produced and progress is made in...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Four small focus groups of adults were observed while they interacted with material related to a science-technology issue. The results shed light on some basic issues in science teaching, such as how...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This paper explores differences between scientists’ experiences of science and the investigations that are a common type of learning activity in school science. The first half of the paper makes a...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article