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Putting the Nature of Science strand into the water cycle

Author(s): Ally Bull, Bill MacIntyre, Chris Joyce, Rosemary (Rose) Hipkins MNZM
The water cycle is an important context for school science, but the uncritical use of diagrams to simplify ideas may lead to misconceptions. Incorporating learning about how representations such as...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: PDF icon set2008_2_010.pdf | Content type: Set article

Some musings about the links between formative assessment and the development of key competencies

Author(s): Chris Joyce
Using assessment  information formatively to contribute to teaching skills and knowledge that underpin the key competencies.   The example used is from a study of 600 student...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Thinking about the "big picture": how can school science contribute?

Author(s): Ally Bull, Chris Joyce, Rosemary (Rose) Hipkins MNZM
This article proposes that if we want students to care about and for the environment they need to develop an understanding of the "big picture"—that is, how the separate elements of a system interact...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article