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This paper explores differences between scientists’ experiences of science and the investigations that are a common type of learning activity in school science. The first half of the paper makes a...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The focus of this article is the strategies that young children use to find the volume of rectangular prisms. Children were observed during teaching sessions and their solutions to follow-up...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article How can the New Zealand curriculum encompass Māori values and perspectives? Arohia Durie comments on the issues.
| 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 This action-research project investigated the efficacy of negotiation and power sharing during a physical education unit in an alternative education programme for students at risk. The students...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Curriculum Matters is, for me, a long overdue publication. Its genesis is due to the thinking of our colleagues in the Ministry of Education who wanted to encourage debate about curriculum, in...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
CM2005_1_001.pdf | Content type: Curriculum Matters article Investigating suspected underachievement in literacy in an intermediate school revealed that the levels of achievement in reading and writing were indeed a concern, especially the writing of Years 5–...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The dynamic and integrated nature of environmental education and the broader concept of education for sustainability require not only the teaching and learning skills of the environmentally educated...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Accessing children’s understandings through traditional methods of assessment can be problematic for teachers. This article explores how the use of drawings by a group of Year 5 children to answer...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This small study provides some evidence that even at a young age, students are able to begin developing self-regulation skills in the context of science investigations.
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2005_2_038.pdf | Content type: Set article