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Teachers have always needed valid tests to assess students' proficiency so that the most appropriate classroom instruction can be used. This is particularly true in the current educational...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article As National Standards come into force around the country, schools are starting to deal with implementing them in practice. This article explores some ideas about the implementation of National...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Are the tests normed?
Why aren’t reading ages given in the new tests?
How can we report to parents?
Is there a specific test for each year group?
How can we use...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Thirteen schools that produced high mean literacy scores, relative to their decile levels, in a nationwide survey were visited and studied to identify practices that might account for their students...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article How much do your students read? Here is a quick way of finding out. Note: this TRT has been designed with New Zealand children in mind. An adaptation could be made for Australian readers, see the...
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article There are a small number of children who can sound out every word and make it all sound sensible, but who understand very little of what they have ‘read’. Theoretical conclusions and...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Most children in school learn the meanings of more than a thousand new words each year. Yet few teachers deliberately set out to drill their pupils systematically on selected word lists. Nor do...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Are the tests normed?
Why aren't the reading ages given in the new tests?
How can we report to parents?
Is there a specific test for each year group?
How can we use...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Nairn, K., Higgins, J., & Sligo, J. (2012). Children of Rogernomics: A neoliberal generation leaves school. Otago University Press. Reviewed by Jennifer Tatebe
Kalantzis, M., & Cope,...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article