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The growing diversity of students in mainstream schools in Aotearoa New Zealand is challenging for educators and policy makers alike. Educational researchers in the 21st century have shown that...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In this edition of Assessment News education advisor Cathie Johnson encourages schools to consider how they can reflect and report on dimensions of engagement and learning that cannot be...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2015_3_058.pdf | Content type: Set article
Assessment in schools is often concerned with generating student-achievement information in specific learning areas. However, we can use assessment techniques to collect a wider range of information...
| Year published: 2010 | 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
Years 7–8 Asian students identified preferred follow-up activities to guided reading and a preference for reading fiction. Barriers to their engagement and achievement included compulsory reading...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Practical Research for Education, 38, October 2007, pp. 29–33 (reprinted with permission)
This piece demonstrates authentic research in practice.
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: Practical Research for Education | Content type: Set article
Students' perspectives on teacher questioning are discussed as a component of formative assessment in a Year 13 chemistry class at a large coeducational urban New Zealand high school. The authors...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This is an account of Red Beach Primary School's experience in using the power of student voice to record development of the students as lifelong learners and to guide decision making.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In recent years, the cries for teachers to have high expectations for all their students have been heard far and wide—yet, research in the expectancy area carried out at the whole class level has...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A wide research base in general Pacific education literature supports active learning activities that encourage students to work collaboratively. Many schools engage Pacific students in group-based...
| Year published: 2022 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article