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One of the most important goals for teaching statistics is to prepare students to deal with the statistical information that increasingly impacts on their everyday lives. Students need to be able to...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article explores what a group of Years 11 and 13 students think about history, how they talk about it and what they are interested in studying. It suggests that being aware of student interests...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article presents evidence of the first activity in a sequence of history pedagogy Thinking About History that engaged learners in connecting to their pasts as a way into history.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article summarises the key features of the transition support, offered to students at seven low-decile schools, which impacted on their career decision making and postschool destinations. ...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Missing the point: REPORTING ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT TO KOREAN PARENTS AT ONE NEW ZEALAND HIGH SCHOOL
How effective is school reporting, particularly for parents of international students? Schools spend considerable time and effort in reporting to parents, but little research has been conducted on...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article, the third in a series about carrying out research as a student learning activity, discusses how research relates to context—in this case, history.
The challenge is to help students...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Helping students to use metacognition involves assisting students to think about their own learning. This article shows how a teacher in a final-year high school biology class scaffolded learning by...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The second of three articles on research as a student learning activity. Rosemary Hipkins explores the idea of "information literacy" and argues that different school subjects provide...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Base 6, an inquiry-based curriculum integration secondary programme, is now in its fifth year at Kuranui College in Greytown. This article summarises the data from the first three years of the...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
For students to be most successful in their education, schools and teachers need to recognise, plan, and teach for the literacy demands inherent in the learning and assessment activities they...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article