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As we know, a pessimist is someone who sees the glass of wine as half empty while the optimist is someone who sees it as half full. The pessimistic perspective with its emphasis on problems, often...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Starting out in teaching is "scary" for most new teachers. Here, the practices that beginning teachers found most supportive are highlighted.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
set2007_3_032.pdf | Content type: Set article The literary curriculum is not the literacy curriculum. The literary curriculum encompasses aspects of the taught curriculum, the assessed curriculum, and the processes of curriculum development and...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article If one were to name one year as the year that assessment was invented, that year would be 1980. This proposition is not fully proven here, but a plausible argument is presented in its defence.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article Charles answers the following questions:
If we pre- and post-test every unit, are we overtesting?
How can we determine whether our students have progressed if we do not test every unit?
Is...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article In recent years, the cries for teachers to have high expectations for all their students have been heard far and wide—yet, research in the expectancy area carried out at the whole class level has...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The implication that teachers with high expectations will improve student achievement has an appealing logic. However, whether or not the instructional practices and beliefs of teachers having high...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article How well do our students learn what we set out to teach them? There are many opinions, but not enough facts. This article summarises the results of 35 years of international surveys of achievement in...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The introduction this year of the draft key competencies (paralleling the five strands of Te Whāriki) brings an exciting new development to the early childhood as well as the primary and secondary...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The introduction this year of the draft key competencies (paralleling the five strands of Te Whāriki) brings an exciting new development to the early childhood as well as the primary and secondary...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article