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Executive functioning, computer games and Attention Deficity Hyperactivity Disorder. Does performance change over time?
(2003)The performance of 11 boys with ADHD and 13 control boys aged between 9.10 to 13.6 years were compared on several repeated measures of specific and integrated executive functioning tasks. The domains of executive functioning ... -
Prevalence of children with behaviour disorders in Canterbury primary schools
(1996)All 189 Canterbury primary schools were surveyed to determine the prevalence of children with behaviour disorders. Prevalence rates were estimated by sampling at Years 1, 4 and 7. A total of 186 schools participated in ... -
Effects of fluency building in multiplication tables on the rate of learning to factorise quadratic equations
(2001)Fluency building in basic skills is a highly effective method of preventing and remediating learning difficulties in the classroom. Unfortunately this method is seldom used. One of the claimed consequences, for the learner, ... -
Graduate early childhood teachers: experiencing the head and heart of teaching
(2003)The aim of this qualitative study was to gain a deeper understanding of how the University component of the Bachelor of Teaching and Learning degree had impacted on the teaching experiences and perspectives of early childhood ... -
Assessing the difficulty level of textbooks used by secondary one pupils in Singaporeusing the cloze procedure
(1986)The study was undertaken primarily to assess the difficulty level of textbooks used by Secondary 1 pupils in Singapore using cloze readability tests. 174 Express and 192 Normal stream Secondary 1 pupils were first administered ... -
The effects of hearing peers' signed exact language skills on the social interaction of deaf children in a partially integrated primary school setting
(1988)This study measured the interaction of four ten year old deaf children involved in a partially integrated school-based programme with an experimental group of hearing peers who had received daily training in Signed English ... -
A study of the Canterbury-Westland mathematics internal assessment scheme
(1990)One factor preventing the wider acceptance of school-based curriculum development and assessment, is the problem of comparing performances of different students, in different schools, in the same and different areas of ... -
Oral reading achievements, strategies and characteristics of New Zealand primary school students reading below normal expectation
(2002)NEMP 2000 oral reading videotaped data was re-analysed to investigate reading behaviours of year 4 and year 8 students reading below normal expectation. A diagnostic analysis of New Zealand primary school students reading ... -
Parent perspectives on parent education
(1995)A questionnaire on parent education was responded to by 209 parents in two suburban areas of Christchurch. Parents identified their sources of information on parenting, and listed the parent education courses they had ... -
Planning for curriculum in early childhood centres - the beliefs and practices that drive the process
(2002)This paper draws on data from interviews with early childhood teachers and teachers-in training, discussing their beliefs and practices in relation to planning for the curriculum in early childhood centres. The intention ... -
Zero - a vehicle to place value understanding
(2005)Understanding of place value in numeracy has been debated amongst teachers and mathematics teacher educators for many years. More recently the debate has been heightened in New Zealand with the introduction of the New ... -
Principles or process? An examination of Kohlberg's cognitive theory of mora development and Haan's interactionist critique
(1985)Lawrence Kohlberg has recently, after 25 years work on moral development theory, updated and adjusted his theory. The contemporary presentation is outlined. At the same time, Norma Haan, after a similar period of less ... -
A preliminary investigation into the relationship between children's perception of the reading process and their oral reading behaviour
(1980)24 Standard Two and Three children were interviewed about their understanding of the reading process and each completed a Prose Inventory. The results were analysed to identify the relationship between their perception of ... -
A dual approach to course evaluation (a case study)
(1990)The appraisal of teaching and the evaluation of courses in New Zealand polytechnics is topical as it has become a requirement of managers in polytechnics to implement staff appraisal and provide for staff development. All ... -
Development of writing in five and six-year old children
(1986)The purpose of this study was to look at the writing of a small sample of children at a large urban primary school. Observations were made and samples of writing collected during a daily process writing programme which ... -
O le fa’asolo a Mānaia : the implementation of a junior Samoan language class in a New Zealand secondary school with a small and diverse Pasifika student community.
(2021)While there is a significant number of Pasifika secondary students in Auckland, there are also over 100 secondary schools across New Zealand which have Pasifika student populations of between 5-10% and / or between 30-70 ... -
Reading-related activities of six Down's Syndrome children mainstreamed in New Zealand primary schools : an observational study
(1988)Six young children with Down's Syndrome, mainstreamed in state primary schools, were observed in three school reading-related settings. Videorecordings, running records, informal interviews and questionnaires were used to ... -
The reading and other leisure interests of Banks Peninsula children : a rural perspective
(1986)Reading is a feature of our daily life whether it be a book, newspaper, map, road sign or computer screen. We have a basic assumption within our society that each citizen can read the questions on a census form or the ...
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