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Pupils with IQs in the range 70- 90 are usually in regular secondary school classes. They make up some 5% to 10% of the average first year high school intake. Such pupils are frequently reported...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What do young people think of the urban environment and of the recreational facilities available to them? In order to get some insight into these questions a number of pupils in some Auckland...
| Year published: 1978 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In 1973 Robert Havighurst, an eminent American anthropologist and educator who had worked in New Zealand previously, spent a few months talking to New Zealand educators and visiting secondary...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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 Literacy support and intervention can occur effectively within secondary social studies classes, rather than withdrawing students from regular instruction, by focusing on the literacy skills and...
| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Academic vocabulary is important for academic achievement, but many students, especially English-language learners, struggle with understanding and using academic vocabulary. This...
| Year published: 2017 | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article NCEA has potential for the development of assessment frameworks that enable all students to demonstrate success in learning. However, research shows that this potential is not being realised. This...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Printouts of students’ ethnicities can help remind teachers that they are responsible for educating, and responding to the needs of, students with a range of ethnicities. However, such bare-bones...
| Year published: 2013 | 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