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There is a lot to be learnt about how to teach a subject from what practitioners do every day. An insight into what delights mathematicians and what could delight our pupils.
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Schools have adopted different strategies in their attempts to cope with all the recent curriculum changes, and teachers have different views on the new curriculum documents—but how new is new?
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Despite New Zealand students performing well in reading and literacy there is some concern that boys, particularly nine-year-olds, are not performing as well as could be expected.
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Children can be encouraged to maintain and develop their proficiency in Māori in a classroom where it is not the language of instruction. This research has implications for the promotion of Māori in...
| Year published: 1998 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Some of the findings from a research project that aimed to document the role that a visit to one New Zealand science and technology centre played in the educational activities of six visiting primary...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
From Alan Duff’s original vision in 1992, the Books in Homes programme grew to reach 397 low-decile schools and 78,000 students by 2001, with well over a million books distributed. The evaluation was...
| Year published: 2002 | 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
This article explores the impact of book bags containing non-fiction books, related artefacts and activity sheets on the reading behaviour and attitudes of reluctant and struggling boy readers....
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The researchers investigated the impact of a literacy intervention on reading and writing and the sustainability of the programme. Data on reading and writing achievement showed that while the latter...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In a study based on a survey of Year 11 students, boys reported a higher level of negative writing satisfaction and less writing enjoyment in the English classroom than girls did. Boys and girls...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article