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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 of decision-making strategies used by students in their last year at high school opens the discussion on the effectiveness of the transition from school to the work place or higher...
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most high schools 'bend the rules' for some pupils. The obvious results are good: less truancy, less bad behaviour, even more work. But there are bad effects: rules set aside, 'make-...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Five years ago 88 percent of students in an average high school thought there would be a devastating war in their lifetimes. How have perceptions changed? A follow-up study.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How long should a young person continue at school? Should they remain and risk educational failure or should they leave and risk unemployment? Every year in New Zealand thousands of young people face...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teachers cannot continue to be efficient in the classroom unless parents -and society -take a much firmer hand in training children in morals, ethics and good manners.
| Year published: 1975 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The Parker Brothers' 1971 game of "Careers" may be light-hearted but the career decisions faced by young people leaving school today are no game. Those decisions are considered more...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Do students of different sex, race, level of school achievement or from different socio-economic backgrounds have different perceptions of their last year of school? If they do, how much equity is...
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What does the term "student voice" mean to you? Does it mean listening to students' opinions? Involving students in decisions about their learning? Giving students equal say in decisions about school...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2011_1_031.pdf | Content type: Set article