Journal 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 summarises a research synthesis on longer learning periods and considers whether they lead to improved student learning.

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 differences of context that students need to experience and learn to critique.

This article was incorporated into the NZCER Press book Learning to do research: Challenges for students and teachers.

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 activities. The author discusses the nature of research as enquiry, identifies some common themes in advocacy for future-focused education, and links them to the key competencies currently being introduced into the New Zealand curriculum.

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.