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In the best of all possible worlds, so goes the myth, students go to university because of their ability and interest, and the subjects they choose they choose for the same two reasons. Because of...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Evaluating information quality is a key skill students need to develop as they navigate the complex information landscape. Students need to develop an awareness of effective ways to evaluate...
| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Starting teaching in a new country and a new culture is like being a beginning teacher again. If you come from a Confucian culture where teachers are automatically respected, the New Zealand...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This study of decision-making strategies used by students in their last year at high school opens the discussion on the effectiveness of the transition from school to the work place or higher...
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Can a group interview be fair and effective? Successful and unsuccessful applicants to the Auckland College of Education express their opinions.
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Adults were interviewed to discover the mathematics they actually used in their everyday life and their workplaces. School mathematics is relatively unimportant but estimating, optimising, and using...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A famous discussion of the issues raised when a student at Harvard received an A for an examination he did, for fun, in a subject he had never studied.
| 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
If you left school without much in the way of formal qualifications, how do you get back to study? Bridging courses may help. The success of one such course in South Australia was...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A Planning Council economist sees market forces, plus education, as the only route to well paid, sustainable, full employment. Professor Snook says the figures don't back up the dogma...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article