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Drawing on secondary teachers’ experience of standards-based assessment for NCEA, this short article discusses moderation challenges that will face primary teachers as they make overall professional...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
set2010_1_018.pdf | Content type: Set article In a recent “Assessment News” we wrote about an impending new series of standardised science tests for Years 7–10. The tests, Science: Thinking with Evidence, have now been published and were...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This companion article reports initial findings of a case study of longer learning periods in one school. It examines whether teachers perceive longer lessons to make a difference to teaching...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set 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 explores how the key competency thinking links with 21st century views of teaching and learning.
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | 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 This article, the fourth of a series about student research activities, examines the underlying reasons why it is important for students to have rich opportunities to carry out research-related...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article, the third in a series about carrying out research as a student learning activity, discusses how research relates to context—in this case, history.
The challenge is to help students...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The second of three articles on research as a student learning activity. Rosemary Hipkins explores the idea of "information literacy" and argues that different school subjects provide...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Future-focused theoretical thinking about education exhibits an ontological turn, with attendant advocacy for more attention to be paid to the nature of knowledge and to students' identity...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article