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Most of the findings of research into teaching and learning seem fairly self-evident. Good teachers know about them almost intuitively and may be disappointed that educational researchers have not...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The need to assess how much students have learned has been fundamental in education for as long as there have been students and teachers. Long before standardized tests of achievement came on the...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There are three major methods of determining how readable (i.e. understandable) prose is.
1. The teacher, from experience, makes an estimate Teacher Estimates.
2. The pupil tries reading it (...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Putting things in order is an important way of organising them. Children who can organise objects, according to colour, or size, or what they are used for, are well on the way to being able to...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
It is important to explore the relation between research and policy and this can be done by reviewing some of the findings of research which have focussed on transition from school. Although the...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Have we made advances in eliminating sex role stereotyping in the materials we use in our pre-schools and junior schools? Do we now show young children that women are active exciting people found...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
For some years now the Finke River Mission has been concerned about the educational programme at Hermannsburg. There was very low correlation between the amount of effort and resources provided...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
During the last decade, we have heard a good deal about the need for curriculum change in the secondary schools. The Educational Development Conference reports, the Johnson Report, and the McCombs...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Homework is one of those things about which most people can speak from personal experience. This is either because they have done it as children, have set it as teachers, or have supervised it as...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Curriculum developers have in the past almost invariably structured and developed curricula from the perspective of the teacher. Our contention is that no matter what curriculum framework is...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article