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This article describes how a teacher in a high school classroom facilitated her students' acquisition and use of the specialist language of mathematics. Using ideas from second language acquisition,...
| Year published: 2006 | 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 Teachers and teacher-librarians collaborate to establish an ongoing, school-wide literacy programme to teach students the process of research and the procedural skills of information literacy.
| 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 Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) has been well received by many educators. Most of the literature on MI, however, concentrates on the primary school sector. This article considers the...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article While a wide variety of activities can contribute to students’ experiences of carrying out research, comments from secondary school students involved in the Learning Curves project suggest that many...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article