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Direct linkFletcher, Jo; Nicholas, Karen – Education 3-13, 2018
ABSTRACT In New Zealand schools, the focus continues to be on improving the reading achievement of all students situated across a range of socio-economic groups. This is particularly so for our young adolescent students, where research investigations have indicated some concerning trends which influence reading development for this age group. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Early Adolescents, Case Studies
Williams, Judy A. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2010
This study was designed to explore children's understanding of formative assessment and its effects on their learning, in order to establish what learners perceive as important to help them improve their learning. The study found that children have a good understanding of the concepts of feedback, and can articulate clearly the elements most…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Formative Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
Bird, Lisa – 1986
This study examined the effect of three aspects of the testing context--physical privacy, anonymity, and offers of help from a tester--on children's expectations. Performance of 96 11-year-old boys and girls on a pictorial recall memory task in a simulated test was evaluated. The subjects were divided into eight different groups varying on the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Expectation, Foreign Countries, Helping Relationship
Download full textLevstik, Linda S. – 1999
A study investigated early adolescent Maori, Pacific Islander, and European New Zealanders' understanding of significance in New Zealand (Aotearoa) history through open-ended interviews with 49 11-13-year-old students. Participants understood history to have a dual purpose. First, history linked them to various national, racial, and ethnic…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Cultural Background, Early Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedNg, Sik Hung; Pipe, Margaret-Ellen; Beath, Bruce; Holton, Derek – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1999
Examines how the wording of statistical problems affects 11-12 year old children's answers. Ninety-six children were given statistical problems on two statistical concepts (base-rate and the law of large numbers). Indicates that the children had a high level of statistical intuition and knew when to reason statistically. (CMK)
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Intermediate Grades
Moore, Penelope A.; St. George, Alison – School Library Media Quarterly, 1991
Discussion of information skills and library skills instruction focuses on a study of the information retrieval process used by grade six children in New Zealand. Selection of keywords, use of the card catalog, and location of books using the Dewey Decimal system are investigated, and the role of cognitive skills is discussed. (17 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Card Catalogs, Dewey Decimal Classification, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
Alton-Lee, Adrienne; Haberfield, Robin – 1982
Data were gathered, using pre and posttests and interviews, on the learning of individual students during a seven-week unit on a science topic (conservation) in a fourth grade classroom. Case studies of the learning experiences of each child, based on recordings and detailed observations of all class activities, were used to predict student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques
