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Over the past 6 years, the National Education Monitoring Project has monitored the educational achievement and attitudes of Year 4 and 8 students in New Zealand schools, covering 15 curriculum areas...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Supportive friendships and relationships at school contribute to children’s quality of life as well as their learning. There are some concerns that students with disabilities may be isolated, lonely...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The literature on curriculum delivery in New Zealand for Years 9 and 10 has acknowledged that differences exist between the delivery styles in primary and secondary schools, but it has offered little...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Over forty years of research and experience show that it is the middle school philosophy and approach, rather than grade span or school organisation, which make middle schools educationally effective...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article One of the most obvious changes brought about by the curriculum reforms of the 1990s was the inclusion of technology as one of the seven areas of learning. The perceived impact of this ‘new’ area is...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The authors look at the differences between the primary, intermediate/middle and secondary “islands” in the educational “sea”, the structural reasons for their separateness, the impact of this on...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Analysing the pattern of incorrect answers to Assessment Resource Bank items is providing valuable diagnostic information. This can enable teachers to identify roadblocks to student understanding and...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
set2000_1_040.pdf | Content type: Set article New NZCER Information Skills tests explore students’ understanding of the information skills involved in using libraries, parts of a book, and reference sources. They provide strong evidence that...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Real improvement cannot come from anywhere other than within schools themselves. “Within” is a complex web of values and beliefs, norms, social and power relationships and emotions. Changing schools...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The requirement to report school entry assessment data to the Ministry of Education makes SEA a high stakes activity. But how well is it working? In this study, all teachers raised concerns such as...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article