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The second of three articles on research as a student learning activity. Rosemary Hipkins explores the idea of "information literacy" and argues that different school subjects provide...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Base 6, an inquiry-based curriculum integration secondary programme, is now in its fifth year at Kuranui College in Greytown. This article summarises the data from the first three years of the...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article For students to be most successful in their education, schools and teachers need to recognise, plan, and teach for the literacy demands inherent in the learning and assessment activities they...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) has been well received by many educators. Most of the literature on MI, however, concentrates on the primary school sector. This article considers the...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article While a wide variety of activities can contribute to students’ experiences of carrying out research, comments from secondary school students involved in the Learning Curves project suggest that many...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Any student can become a target of physical, verbal, or relational bullying, but now there's a new threat—bullying through text-messaging. This article examines the nature and prevalence of text-...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Nineteen broad areas of essential learning about New Zealand society are identified in the social studies curriculum. The authors consider what aspects of these are assessed in the 2001 NEMP...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Technology students often have widely varying knowledge and skills, so making qualification credits accessible to all is a challenge for the teacher. This study focused on real-life contexts,...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Teachers are constantly urged to develop higher-level thinking skills in their students. This article describes one school's approach to developing these skills in Year 9 students in a way that is...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article discusses the merits of using cancer as a context for teaching about social and ethical issues. It is based on part of a larger research project that investigated the teaching and...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article