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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
Is the issue worth investigating? After all, numerous studies have shown that the home environment is a major influence on behaviour, and, within the school, more promising variables for study are...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Concern about disruptive behaviour has increased dramatically in the last decade. Three reasons are often put forward for this.
(i) Disruptive behaviour in schools is the inevitable...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
If you believe that hitting children is right and proper and probably good for them, that it stiffens the moral fibre, gives them a taste of what life is an about, and so on, then no amount of...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Assessment in schools is often concerned with generating student-achievement information in specific learning areas. However, we can use assessment techniques to collect a wider range of information...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Many of our teaching techniques are based on behaviourist experiments of years ago. But behaviour analysis has moved on and discovered that most of what we do is governed by rules we...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article A skilled detector of the art of putting things off reveals the techniques of 14-year-old Wayne and his partners, and shows how the clever teacher gets them working.
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The weather does have an effect on children's (mis)behaviour. Evidence from Britain puts rain, wind and temperature alongside referrals for 'time out' and comes up with a predictive...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This discipline strategy is designed for schools rather than single classes. A proper implementation process involving in-service training for all staff is recommended. The strategy requires...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article In the United Kingdom, classroom seating with desks or tables arranged in rows is the norm in secondary schools. This was also the case in most primary schools until the sixties when a less formal...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article