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This article makes connections between the findings from an evaluation of the Ministry of Health’s Fruit in Schools (FiS) initiative and recent changes in the New Zealand curriculum, in particular in...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
set2009_3_37.pdf | Content type: Set article The integration of Number and Algebra into one strand in The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) raises questions about the relationship between these two branches of mathematics and...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article This paper examines the implications of using large-scale assessment results (a) to make judgements about student achievement of educational goals and (b) to provide educators with directions for...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article Three key messages:
The more leaders focus on the core business of improving teaching and learning, the bigger their impact on student outcomes.
The self-managing school model should not be...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article It was her own three-year stint as head of The University of Auckland’s School of Education that really sparked Viviane Robinson’s interest in leadership. “That sort of experiential, gut-level...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article This paper describes an instance of classroom assessment and then moves on to consider the ways that examples such as this may illustrate, and be informed by, the principles for curriculum decision...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article This article aims to prompt discussion about thinking in the school curriculum. It begins with a brief exploration of thinking, in which the difficulty of defining and classifying thinking is...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article Assessment for learning (AfL) is widely acknowledged in international research as an effective approach to supporting and promoting learning, but its use in educational settings is not as widespread...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article This companion article to “Enabling students to lead the way” explores the rationale for using a whole-school approach to health and wellbeing, and the connection between this approach and the...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Are the tests normed?
Why aren’t 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