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There are three major methods of determining how readable (i.e. understandable) prose is.
1. The teacher, from experience, makes an estimate Teacher Estimates.
2. The pupil tries reading it (...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
During the last decade, we have heard a good deal about the need for curriculum change in the secondary schools. The Educational Development Conference reports, the Johnson Report, and the McCombs...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Curriculum developers have in the past almost invariably structured and developed curricula from the perspective of the teacher. Our contention is that no matter what curriculum framework is...
| 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
These Initial Vocabularies for Reading have been developed by Brian Thompson of the Education Department of Victoria University of Wellington to help teachers in primary schools.
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In 1972, after four years of using mechanical calculators in my teaching now and again, I tried electronic calculators. It
was incontestable that they were a help in the classroom. They had a...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Technological improvements are still being made. Choose new performance and convenience, not new gimmickry or styling that is just new casing around old brains. On the whole, the more you pay the...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article History Matters reflects the dynamic nature of teaching and learning history in New Zealand secondary classrooms. It demonstrates not only the wealth of enthusiasm and expertise within the...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Book | Publisher: NZCER Press | Abstracts: 
History Matters_contents.pdf, | Abstracts: History Matters_ch 1.pdf | Content type: Books ISBN 978-1-927151-88-4
Teachers and principals know that students learn best when involved, challenged and inspired. An integrated curriculum offers teachers the tools to engage, extend and...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Book | Publisher: NZCER Press | Abstracts: Contents.pdf, | Abstracts: Chapter 2.pdf | Content type: Books
ISBN: 978-1-927231-08-1
About Key Competencies for the Future
How should we educate today’s students so that they will be proactive, confident future-builders in the uncertain...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Book | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Books