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Recent research on school improvement indicates that schools can lift student achievement by using achievement information to work out how to modify their programmes. Robertson Rd School worked...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Six UK secondary schools investigated whole-class interactive teaching of mathematics, identified its key characteristics, and put it into effective use in their own classrooms.
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Cognitively Guided Instruction provides a basis for understanding why a child is able to solve certain problems and not able to solve others. Within a problem-solving environment, interactive...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The main purpose of assessment was once its selection and grading functions. Teachers customarily marked work in order to grade it and to give a position in class. This prompted the question whether...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Three years’ research work with 14 primary school teachers and two principals in technology education has shown how effective research, development, and negotiated intervention strategies can be...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A study conducted in conjunction with the National Education Monitoring Project examined four different assessment task formats. It found that different formats were appropriate, depending on the...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A survey of the science interests of Year 5 students was attached to Assessment Resource Bank material sent out to schools for trialling in terms 1 and 2, 2001. Overall the results show that there...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The authors look at the differences between the primary, intermediate/middle and secondary “islands” in the educational “sea”, the structural reasons for their separateness, the impact of this on...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
New NZCER Information Skills tests explore students’ understanding of the information skills involved in using libraries, parts of a book, and reference sources. They provide strong evidence that...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article reports on research from two surveys: one which investigated the prevalence of students with emotional/behavioural disorders; the other investigated students' views on schoolwork,...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article