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This article, the fourth of a series about student research activities, examines the underlying reasons why it is important for students to have rich opportunities to carry out research-related...
| 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 The second of three articles on research as a student learning activity. Rosemary Hipkins explores the idea of "information literacy" and argues that different school subjects provide...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Future-focused theoretical thinking about education exhibits an ontological turn, with attendant advocacy for more attention to be paid to the nature of knowledge and to students' identity...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article While a wide variety of activities can contribute to students’ experiences of carrying out research, comments from secondary school students involved in the Learning Curves project suggest that many...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Why has the Curriculum Marautanga Project chosen the competencies of relating to others, managing self, participating and contributing, thinking, and using language, symbols, and texts? Why now...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Four small focus groups of adults were observed while they interacted with material related to a science-technology issue. The results shed light on some basic issues in science teaching, such as how...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This paper explores differences between scientists’ experiences of science and the investigations that are a common type of learning activity in school science. The first half of the paper makes a...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This small study provides some evidence that even at a young age, students are able to begin developing self-regulation skills in the context of science investigations.
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
set2005_2_038.pdf | Content type: Set article The New Zealand Curriculum highlights the importance of learning to learn. This presents practical challenges to schools, in relation to shifts in teaching and learning practices. This article...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article