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Changing Trajectories of Teaching and Learning

Author(s): Helen Hedges, Judy Parr, Stephen May

ISBN 978-1-927151-39-6 This monograph is designed to highlight areas of research strength found at The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education. The chosen...

| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Book | Publisher: NZCER Press | Abstracts:

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The foundations of school testing

An understanding of validity, reliability and usability are a must for all test users. The validity of a test is an indication of how well it measures what the author claims it will measure; its...

| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Improving the format of classroom tests

We have all had the experience at some time of being given a good test which has been ruined or just made less 'do-able' by clumsy layout and unsatisfactory reproduction. Poor layout and...

| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

A close look at the cloze test

In recent years an increasing number of teachers have found the "Cioze Procedure" an asset in their reading programmes. Some use it for assessing the level of their students' reading...

| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Assessing What They've Learned

As teachers, we should be clear why we are testing. We should not test just because it is always done. Certainly, tests often do help motivate students to work harder. But the results can be...

| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Troubled Times for Educational Testing

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

Implementing values in the New Zealand curriculum: Four years on

There is limited research to support our understanding of values implementation in New Zealand schools. This article draws on findings from a recent Teaching and Learning Research...

| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Can test results help us make Overall Teacher Judgements?

Author(s): Charles Darr

From time to time the New Zealand Council for Educational Research is asked how test results can contribute to making an Overall Teacher Judgement (OTJ). This is an important and complex question and...

| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Assessment for learning as a participative pedagogy

Assessment for learning (AfL) practices observed in case studies in a North Queensland school were analysed from a sociocultural theoretical perspective. AfL practices of feedback, dialogue and peer...

| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Commentary: Wanted: A formative assessment starter kit

Before I trot out my starter-kit proposal, however, I need to make sure we are considering the same entity here, so let me first offer a definition of formative assessment and, after that, provide a...