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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
Teachers have always needed valid tests to assess students' proficiency so that the most appropriate classroom instruction can be used. This is particularly true in the current educational...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Youth unemployment is not a new problem but its extent, and the way it will not go away, are new. Economic downturns affect young people disproportionately: they are unemployed, or the last hired...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Concern about disruptive behaviour has increased dramatically in the last decade. Three reasons are often put forward for this.
(i) Disruptive behaviour in schools is the inevitable...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
For some years now we have been studying the behaviour of preschool children in nurseries and playgroups. From our early observations a feature which most caught our attention was the difference...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Moral education is important for developing good mental health. Ours is a pluralistic society in that different groups seek different goals and operate from different values. Therefore, we have to...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most teachers are probably just as curious about what goes on in other classrooms as they are about what goes on in their own. But generally we do not get much opportunity to observe our...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As every teacher knows, in any normal classroom and whatever subject is being taught, there will be a wide range of individual differences in students' learning. Some will learn more quickly...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most of the findings of research into teaching and learning seem fairly self-evident. Good teachers know about them almost intuitively and may be disappointed that educational researchers have not...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The need to assess how much students have learned has been fundamental in education for as long as there have been students and teachers. Long before standardized tests of achievement came on the...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article