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In order to convey information and notions about time adults use a complex set of conventions. Of interest is children's ability to grasp and use these conventions.
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Maori and other Polynesian children underachieve in the New Zealand school system and educators have often suggested that more research is needed to find out why. More specifically, what skills do...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The requirement to report school entry assessment data to the Ministry of Education makes SEA a high stakes activity. But how well is it working? In this study, all teachers raised concerns such as...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article There is growing pressure for all teachers to become teachers of values. Here are some ways in which mathematics teachers can incorporate values education into their existing mathematics programme...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Many years of patient research have discovered how new ideas get formed, embedded, and remembered at the 8- to 12-year-old level. The conclusions are vital for all teaching.
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article School computers can now provide very versatile and exciting ways for children to present cross-subject 'projects'. The learning, and what the teachers learnt too, was researched.
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Some children find listening and comprehending very difficult - all sorts of things get in the road. Susan Gray got students to tell her what those blocks are. Then she shows how they...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article A flowchart can describe what happens when we set out to copy a sentence; the factors and skills which operate during this task. The model is not about 'meaning' or 'word choice' or 'self-expression...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article How can education help to break down unnecessary sex-stereotyping of school subjects? The issue was much discussed in the 70s. The 'Catch 22' situation in the diagram was common and it was realised...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Teachers cannot continue to be efficient in the classroom unless parents -and society -take a much firmer hand in training children in morals, ethics and good manners.
| Year published: 1975 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article