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Current national and international research indicates the summer break can negatively affect students’ reading achievement. To counter this effect, our primary school with a range of students worked...
| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2017_1_029.pdf | 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
Researchers and teachers both overseas and in New Zealand are all but unanimous that children should be encouraged to read during and outside school hours. It would appear that New Zealand primary...
| Year published: 1995 | 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
From Alan Duff’s original vision in 1992, the Books in Homes programme grew to reach 397 low-decile schools and 78,000 students by 2001, with well over a million books distributed. The evaluation was...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
"What are the conditions required for standards to not only be used to measure improvement but also to inform student learning and teaching for improvement purposes in the context of national...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article describes one primary school’s approach to countering the “summer drop” in reading achievement. By the deliberate sharing of strategies to support reading at home during the holidays...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article