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Diagnostic information from the science assessment resource banks can provide valuable national information about what students know about a particular subject. This information can help teachers...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The author describes a study in which videotaped interviews from the NEMP project were analysed to see how children explained their answers to questions involving the commutative (“changing the order...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As NZCER trials its Assessment Resource Banks for science, the patterns of student answers can help teachers to understand and address student errors and areas of difficulty. This article focuses on...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2000_2_015.pdf | Content type: Set article
Research into children’s understanding of number over the last decade suggests that there are identifiable progressions in how children develop number concepts. The Early Numeracy Project included a...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In 1997 the Ministry of Education launched the School Entry Assessment (SEA) kit, a non-mandatory set of standardised assessment tasks for new entrants. Teachers at 75 Auckland primary schools were...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A group of teachers examined over 400 assessment tasks in the NEMP probe study reports from 1995 to 2000. From mapping each task onto the curriculum, the teachers were able to identify 23 tasks which...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Spelling – Write and Right! (Part 3)
In News and Views (No. 3 and No. 4, 2003) we gave you the lists of essential words that make up 75 percent of most writing. We left you with this question:
Q:...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Are the tests normed?
Why aren't the reading ages given in the new tests?
How can we report to parents?
Is there a specific test for each year group?
How can we use...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A group of trainee teachers was surveyed to find out if there were gaps in their knowledge of key linguistic ideas for teaching reading and spelling, and if these could be reduced through lectures as...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The skills of oral narrative and phonological awareness are seen as precursors and predictors of reading development. In this study of bilingual Māori primary school students, Fleur Harris found that...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2009_3_11.pdf | Content type: Set article