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Escott, Sharnee; McCrudden, Matthew T. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
We investigated writing performance and knowledge of writing before and after a persuasive writing intervention for ethnically diverse elementary school students in a low socio-economic community in Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ). We used a one-group pre-post design. The participants (n = 24) were year 5 and 6 students (ages 9-11) from the same…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Ethnic Groups, Student Diversity, Writing Instruction
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Conner, L. N. – Research in Science Education, 2007
This paper reports on degrees of awareness and use of specific metacognitive strategies by 16 students in a final-year high school biology class in New Zealand. The aims of the intervention were to broaden students' thinking about bioethical issues associated with cancer and to enhance students' use of metacognition. Cues and prompts were used in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cues, Biology, Learning Strategies