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Is the issue worth investigating? After all, numerous studies have shown that the home environment is a major influence on behaviour, and, within the school, more promising variables for study are...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teachers are almost universally agreed that large classes "are exhausting, a cause of frustration, and a reason for failure in basic subjects". Their views about what constitutes a...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
We still put children in classes. But we now believe that every child has a right to be taught the things that fit his or her needs, and taught them at the pace and in the manner that fits his or...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In both Australia and NZ there has been a great deal of interest in the effects that external examinations have on the subjects taught and the way they are taught in secondary schools. In 1970...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In the late 1950s programmed learning was set to revolutionise teaching. B. F. Skinner started the movement in 1954 with a provocative paper entitled 'The Science of Learning and the Art of...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As teachers, we should be clear why we are testing. We should not test just because it is always done. Certainly, tests often do help motivate students to work harder. But the results can be...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What can a teacher, faced by the problem of helping immigrant second-language pupils in his or her class, learn from recent research? One important research project has made us aware of the sort...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Ages, Stages, Classes, Years, Grades, and Systems compared
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 1981 as the International Year of Disabled Persons. The theme is the full participation of disabled people in all aspects of community life....
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
One does not win brownie points anymore for saying that New Zealand is undergoing profound change. New technology could bring about a global village culture, or a return to rural living, or a new...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article