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This article discusses some findings from recent studies on the mental health of young people. It then uses findings from an evaluation of Travellers—an early intervention programme for secondary...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This study explored whether using process drama to teach social studies would engage Year 10 Pasifika boys at a secondary school in Auckland. The author describes how, while in role, students used...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article It has been suggested that focusing on the metacognitive skills secondary students need to make informed decisions about literacy challenges they encounter is a central element in raising literacy...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article 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 The Premier New Zealand Scholarship, awarded annually to students performing at a high level in multiple secondary school subjects, has historically been dominated by students with successful results...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article New Zealand’s previous examination-based secondary assessment system can be viewed as encompassing cultural values presenting unfair challenges for indigenous and other nonmajority students. The...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters 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 It is likely that 16 percent of the New Zealand population will be Asian by 2026. Asian secondary school students desire more contact with local students; local students are unfamiliar with Asia....
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters 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