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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

Test evaluation sheet

A test evaluation sheet for teachers.

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

Scale for rating behavioural characteristics of superior students

These scales are designed to obtain teacher estimates of a student's characteristics in the areas of learning, motivation, creativity, and leadership. The items are derived from the research...

| Year published: 1982 | 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

Assessing the worth of instructional materials

In recent years there has been a veritable explosion in the range of instructional materials produced for classroom use: reading laboratories, spelling laboratories, study skill schemes,...

| Year published: 1978 | 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

PAT: Study Skills Tests

NZCER's familiar Progressive Achievement Test series will shortly be extended as the Council launches its fifth set -the PAT: Study Skills Tests. Since the first PAT tests were released in...

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

Forms of Assessment in Secondary Schools

There is a considerable difference in attitude to secondary school assessment both within and between various groups in the community. In recent years the community has become increasingly...

| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Assessing Attitudes to Reading: What Can Teachers Do?

Most children begin school expecting to learn to read. If this expectation is not met, if they have problems with reading, they may develop a dislike for reading, or just a hopeless feeling about...