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Neville Bennett's controversial research into primary teaching styles unearthed one informal teacher who obtained higher learning gains for her children then any other teacher in the sample. E...
| Year published: 1979 | 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
What do New Zealand teachers expect of their pupils? Are their expectations culturally stereotyped? Do they treat some pupils differently because of their stereotypes?
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
For some years now we have been studying the behaviour of preschool children in nurseries and playgroups. From our early observations a feature which most caught our attention was the difference...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article ISBN: 978-1-927231-96-8
The usual approaches to classroom relationships are either teacher-centred or student-centred. This book breaks new ground in its exploration of relationship-centred...
| Year published: 2016 | Publication type: Book | Publisher: NZCER Press | Abstracts: 
sample chapter.pdf, | Abstracts: Contents.pdf | Content type: Books Assessment for learning (AfL) has been touted as one of the most promising pedagogical approaches for enhancing student learning. Research suggests that engaging students in AfL helps to improve...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article This article deals with the philosophical issue of epistemology, or knowledge theory, in education as related to forms of learning, teaching methods and assessment in the language arts classroom,...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article A group of Waikato University researchers watched as a Year 6 class experimented with Scratch, a child-oriented programming language. The software is designed for children to explore programming—it...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This paper describes an instance of classroom assessment and then moves on to consider the ways that examples such as this may illustrate, and be informed by, the principles for curriculum decision...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article Readers need to focus their attention on detail if they are to engage with big ideas. When a reader interprets details they produce knowledge; the production of knowledge allows them to gain insight...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article