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This study of decision-making strategies used by students in their last year at high school opens the discussion on the effectiveness of the transition from school to the work place or higher...
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Can a group interview be fair and effective? Successful and unsuccessful applicants to the Auckland College of Education express their opinions.
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Adults were interviewed to discover the mathematics they actually used in their everyday life and their workplaces. School mathematics is relatively unimportant but estimating, optimising, and using...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article A famous discussion of the issues raised when a student at Harvard received an A for an examination he did, for fun, in a subject he had never studied.
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article New subjects and courses to interest and benefit senior secondary students who do not plan to go on to higher education have been introduced. This research studied two different...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article If you left school without much in the way of formal qualifications, how do you get back to study? Bridging courses may help. The success of one such course in South Australia was...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article A Planning Council economist sees market forces, plus education, as the only route to well paid, sustainable, full employment. Professor Snook says the figures don't back up the dogma...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This story about sex-stereotyping was used by two American researchers to illustrate the persistence in United States' schools of traditional ideas on sex roles. But it could have come from a New...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article In December 1986 ACER published a major report on this topic. Rates of participation have climbed a bit since then but the factors which influence who gets what education have not. The report itself...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Lab work is the unique feature of a science education. Most of the physical and biological sciences are essentially empirical - research is conducted, knowledge is produced and progress is made in...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article