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ISBN 978-1-927151-39-6
This monograph is designed to highlight areas of research strength found at The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education. The chosen...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Book | Publisher: NZCER Press | Abstracts: 
Contents_Changing Trajectories.pdf, | Abstracts: sample chapter_Changing Trajectories.pdf | Content type: Books This article draws on several reviews that have documented known challenges for students when learning to use graphs in science contexts. It then illustrates these challenges with examples drawn from...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This project explored how ICTs in primary classrooms can enhance the teaching and learning of the practical and theoretical aspects of science. By building on teacher and Years 7/8 student prior...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Science and technology are so central to our 21st century lives that few would dispute their importance in the school curriculum. They underpin many jobs, inform challenging issues facing us as a...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Jane McChesney and Bronwen Cowie explore the key competencies of thinking and using language, symbols, and text in terms of Mathematics and Statistics, Science, and Technology. What do these...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article 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: set2008_2_010.pdf | Content type: Set article 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 Some of the findings from a research project that aimed to document the role that a visit to one New Zealand science and technology centre played in the educational activities of six visiting primary...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article When their funds of knowledge and experiences from home and the community are connected to their school learning, students' learning is supported. In this study teachers used "home learning books" to...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article | Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Book | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Books