Curriculum and assessment
Feedback is a key component of assessment for learning. This study explored whether a sample of students in Years 3–6 understood their teachers' feedback. The results showed some mismatch between teacher intention and student understanding.
Contemporary understandings about health education underpin one school's response to student and community need by ensuring consistency across the school system and using external providers to enhance this synergy. Supporting student action to improve health and wellbeing can assist schools to meet the intent of the new curriculum.
One of the hot topics at a small science education conference I recently attended was the Nature of Science strand of the new curriculum. There was considerable discussion about the kind of support that would assist teachers both to understand what Nature of Science is about and to change their teaching of science to incorporate the intentions of this strand. Teachers may (legitimately) ask: Why would we want to change the way science is taught?
Students' perspectives on teacher questioning are discussed as a component of formative assessment in a Year 13 chemistry class at a large coeducational urban New Zealand high school. The authors offer suggestions for improved practice.
Students participated in a cross-discipline drama and visual-art research project based on a story of a young Cook Island girl making the transition from island life to living in Auckland. This article explores how drama can provide a rich sensory, emotional, and physical context that stimulates visual-art making.
Out-of-school programmes for gifted and talented students in New Zealand were surveyed as a part of a continuum of approaches to meeting students' unique needs.
Assessment in schools is often concerned with generating student-achievement information in specific learning areas. However, we can use assessment techniques to collect a wider range of information that might reveal important prerequisites for learning or educational outcomes that are important in their own right.
