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A series in which we ask a leading researcher to distil three key ideas from their work over the years.
Anne Smith has whipped across the Tasman to look after sick grandchildren in...
Bullying of Years 5–8 students on the school bus is examined and strategies for prevention are suggested.
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.
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...
A literacy project aimed to raise the reading achievement of Māori students was conducted using Ripene Āwhina ki te Pānui Pukapuka (RĀPP), a tape-assisted reading resource for students learning to...
Teachers in a Māori-medium immersion bilingual unit explored teaching Māori bilingual students how to transfer their literacy skills in their first language (English) to become literate in Māori...
A group of trainee teachers was surveyed to find out if there were gaps in their knowledge of key linguistic ideas for teaching reading and spelling, and if these could be reduced through lectures...
It’s a great pleasure for me to launch The Hidden Lives of Learners, a book which distils and clearly expresses the fruits of Professor Graham Nuthall’s outstanding academic career.
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This is an account of Red Beach Primary School's experience in using the power of student voice to record development of the students as lifelong learners and to guide decision making.
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...
This article summarises the key features of the transition support, offered to students at seven low-decile schools, which impacted on their career decision making and postschool destinations. ...
Some musings about the links between formative assessment and the development of key competencies 50
Using assessment information formatively to contribute to teaching skills and knowledge that underpin the key competencies. The example used is from a study of 600 student scripts answering...