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Children say they can write but that they can not read. They can hold a crayon, marker, pencil or some other kind of writing instrument and they can produce some form of written expression. When...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Learning to read is a remarkable human achievement: a possibility realized by the invention of written language. Each new member of our culture is expected to make use of this invention. How do...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Project PATH is investigating issues and developing material for Parents As Teachers of the Handicapped. It was set up at the University of Waikato in February 1978 and will end in September 1981...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
We in Australia and New Zealand are proud of the way we broke free of the British class system when we set up our own nations. In the new lands Jack and Jill became as good as the Master and...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Once upon a time there was a passerby who stopped to watch three workmen going about their labours on a building site. After a time he approached each of the workmen in turn and asked them what...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What aids our understanding of what we read? Firstly good writing, clear print, diagrams, and so on. As well as these, we can take notes, or underline important points; teachers and textbooks...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Educational testing, once the subject of debate by teachers and other professionals, is now being debated in public forums and in open court. Public concern has been most clearly expressed in the...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The focus of our research was on what supervising adults do. We were interested in behavioural processes. Two play centres and two free kindergartens running V2 day sessions, and two day-care...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In the best of all possible worlds, so goes the myth, students go to university because of their ability and interest, and the subjects they choose they choose for the same two reasons. Because of...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In both Australia and New Zealand there has been a history of tension and prejudice as the English speaking majority has reacted to the presence of minorities. The basic tension revolved around...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article