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15 assumptions get in the way of good education. For example, teachers must punish but teachers must not punish. This item will make you think again.
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
New subjects and courses to interest and benefit senior secondary students who do not plan to go on to higher education have been introduced. This research studied two different...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As a guidance officer in a Queensland secondary school Kym Dickinson found herself spending a lot of time counselling because of teasing and bullying. A simple research project led to...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most high schools 'bend the rules' for some pupils. The obvious results are good: less truancy, less bad behaviour, even more work. But there are bad effects: rules set aside, 'make-...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A skilled detector of the art of putting things off reveals the techniques of 14-year-old Wayne and his partners, and shows how the clever teacher gets them working.
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Marks interfere with each other – your brilliantly fair assessments may be 'put-crook' by other equally just marks. Technical, but as readable as Le Carré, and much more important.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
At what point is a school big enough? Some small schools provide a better range of subjects than big ones, but tiny schools will always be expensive to run.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Five years ago 88 percent of students in an average high school thought there would be a devastating war in their lifetimes. How have perceptions changed? A follow-up study.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A very carefully run experiment in Ballarat High School shows definite benefits for schools like Ballarat H.S. These benefits, and critical comments, are detailed.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Currently in secondary schools a special time allowance of 'up to five weekly teaching half days beyond regulation staffing' is available 'to permit schools to employ part time teachers when...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article