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Children learn a great deal from other children. The power of this learning from peers is easily seen. Children learn such things as playground games, the language of their friends, and social...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article draws on the findings of a recent Ministry of Education commissioned evaluation of the CD ROM The Game and other stories. It focuses on possible reasons for the positive impact of...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
When Kirsty was brought to the attention of the Kelburn Visual Resource Centre in September 1979 she was a rather egocentric, tense, frustrated, unhappy and mixed up individual. She wanted to attend...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Classroom teachers report on their success with the Māori version of the highly proclaimed Pause Prompt Praise reading tutoring programme. In a surprise result, student tutors improved their reading...
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
From Alan Duff’s original vision in 1992, the Books in Homes programme grew to reach 397 low-decile schools and 78,000 students by 2001, with well over a million books distributed. The evaluation was...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A literacy project aimed to raise the reading achievement of Māori students was conducted using Ripene Āwhina ki te Pānui Pukapuka (RĀPP), a tape-assisted reading resource for students learning to...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Audio Visual Achievement in Literacy, Language and Learning (AVAILLL), an innovative reading programme that supplements normal classroom literacy programmes, has proved to be extremely effective in...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article describes one primary school’s approach to countering the “summer drop” in reading achievement. By the deliberate sharing of strategies to support reading at home during the holidays...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Student ‘belief effects’ in remedial reading: Stories from six severely reading disabled adolescents
A research project showed that progress in a remedial reading programme for severely reading disabled adolescents was determined by the effects of their beliefs about ability and strategy...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article