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A critical component in the development of students' statistical thinking and reasoning is transnumerative thinking; that is, changing representations of data to engender an understanding of observed...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
Education for the environment is invariably considered to be the fundamental element in education "in, about, and for" the environment. However, research from New Zealand and elsewhere suggests that...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Charles Darr reports on his experience in creating a mathematics test using asTTle, comments on his perceptions, and discusses some of the strengths and weaknesses of this new assessment package for...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Earlier this year 225 primary, intermediate and secondary schools took part in a national consultation on the draft national exemplars. Schools effectively trialled the exemplars and provided...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The literature on curriculum delivery in New Zealand for Years 9 and 10 has acknowledged that differences exist between the delivery styles in primary and secondary schools, but it has offered little...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Research into primary teachers’ assessment and recording practices highlights three approaches to classroom assessment. These are analysed to show how they contribute to both formative and summative...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Real improvement cannot come from anywhere other than within schools themselves. “Within” is a complex web of values and beliefs, norms, social and power relationships and emotions. Changing schools...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most children have trouble understanding decimals - they confuse them with whole numbers or with fractions. Here are some concrete suggestions for how children can use their everyday knowledge to...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The introduction of information skills into the New Zealand Curriculum has signalled a change in direction for education from teacher-centred learning to student-centred learning. However, before...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There is growing pressure for all teachers to become teachers of values. Here are some ways in which mathematics teachers can incorporate values education into their existing mathematics programme...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article