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Social competencies have been highlighted in New Zealand's new curriculum documents, but what criteria do teachers of five-year-olds use when they think about social behaviours?
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Exciting ways young children use calculators. And no, calculators do not inhibit learning.
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
7/16ths, is it bigger or smaller than 8/17ths?
Fractions are notoriously difficult. Difficult to learn and difficult to teach. I have carried out, with help, some research which throws light on the...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Over the past twelve months, I have been working with a group of Australian teachers in the mid-primary school, and with children of about the age of eight. The study which initiated this work is...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What number concepts and skills do children have when they start school? How has their understanding changed after a year? How aware are teachers of what the children know? What number concepts and...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
During 1979-80 we were invited to work in three middle schools (with 8- to 13-year-olds) to clarify what counts as progress in writing. We decided to select, with the teachers, three or four children...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Spelling research is making good progress. Two of the areas it is finding very fruitful are:
1 an examination of the words children write - and subsequently misspell;
2 investigation of how we...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article