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Homework is one of those things about which most people can speak from personal experience. This is either because they have done it as children, have set it as teachers, or have supervised it as...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article discusses some findings from recent studies on the mental health of young people. It then uses findings from an evaluation of Travellers—an early intervention programme for secondary...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This study explored whether using process drama to teach social studies would engage Year 10 Pasifika boys at a secondary school in Auckland. The author describes how, while in role, students used...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article It has been suggested that focusing on the metacognitive skills secondary students need to make informed decisions about literacy challenges they encounter is a central element in raising literacy...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article One of the most important goals for teaching statistics is to prepare students to deal with the statistical information that increasingly impacts on their everyday lives. Students need to be able to...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article explores what a group of Years 11 and 13 students think about history, how they talk about it and what they are interested in studying. It suggests that being aware of student interests...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article presents evidence of the first activity in a sequence of history pedagogy Thinking About History that engaged learners in connecting to their pasts as a way into history.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article summarises the key features of the transition support, offered to students at seven low-decile schools, which impacted on their career decision making and postschool destinations. ...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Missing the point: REPORTING ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT TO KOREAN PARENTS AT ONE NEW ZEALAND HIGH SCHOOL
How effective is school reporting, particularly for parents of international students? Schools spend considerable time and effort in reporting to parents, but little research has been conducted on...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article, the third in a series about carrying out research as a student learning activity, discusses how research relates to context—in this case, history.
The challenge is to help students...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article