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Children learn a great deal from other children. The power of this learning from peers is easily seen. Children learn such things as playground games, the language of their friends, and social...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Streaming (or ability grouping or tracking, as the Americans would have it) has been tried, thrown out, revived, recommended, debunked and debated periodically in recent decades. Writing for New...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Issues of grouping and streaming are still hotly debated by teachers and administrators. Many are moved to turn to the research workers, and ask the simple question - Should we stream our children...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The assertion above was made, not in 1976, but over 40 years ago, in a review of the research on ability grouping published in 1932. Are we any further ahead today? Issues of grouping and streaming...
| Year published: 1976 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set1976_2_014.pdf | Content type: Set article
Californian experience and research bears on the problems of teaching children with diverse languages and diverse cultural attitudes to education. Solutions appear, and are relevant to...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The young people who are the subject of the National Child Development Study are now aged 25. For most of their lives they have been monitored by the National Children's Bureau and described in 19...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article draws on the findings of a recent Ministry of Education commissioned evaluation of the CD ROM The Game and other stories. It focuses on possible reasons for the positive impact of...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
PAT: Study Skills measures some of the most important skills we teach; skills that give children the capacity to learn on their own. However, as study skills are imbedded in every subject in the...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Research in Norway and Britain has revealed that bullying is more common than we care to admit. Doing something about it is recommended, and how to successfully intervene is spelt out...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teachers who understand that spelling is a complex developmental process can help students acquire spelling competency. Initially, the teacher must recognize five stages of spelling development. Once...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: Set1983_2_010.pdf | Content type: Set article