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This article draws primarily on a policy discussion hosted by the New Zealand Association of Research in Education’s (NZARE) Science Special Interest Group at the 2016 national conference, arguing...
| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article In an exploratory project over 12 months, we investigated the role and impact of online citizen science (OCS) participation in primary school science education in four schools. Our inquiry focused on...
| Year published: 2020 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article begins by making the case that the New Zealand curriculum component known as the Nature of Science (NOS) has generally not, thus far, achieved its stated intent of helping...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article The science education team at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) has designed two new online student surveys, one for Years 0–4 and one for Years 5–10. They...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
set2015_1_067.pdf | Content type: Set article The New Zealand Government’s National Science Challenges have recently generated renewed activity on how education, science and the public can better engage with each other, for the benefit...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article This article deals with several problems associated with metaphors commonly used for scientific concepts associated with the topic of evolution. First, a pragmatic linguistic approach is used to...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
This article reports how two first-year student teachers have used their initial teacher education programme experiences in science education to gain a better understanding of The New...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article Ethics is a valuable way to approach science in primary school because grappling with ethical issues engages students. Focusing on ethics encourages students to extend their understanding of...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article There’s a lot that primary school teachers can do to help develop their students’ science learning. This article sets out straightforward possibilities, including encouraging students to observe the...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article In the last 10 years subsidised laptops have been rolled out to classes at all levels and ICT has become more common in the classroom. How are teachers using ICT to teach junior science and what is...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article