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Contributing factors of teachers’ acceptance intention to gamified learning tools in secondary schools : a scale development study
(University of Canterbury, 2021)In the past decades, educationalists were fighting with video games since students naturally prefer to play video games rather than spending time on “more meaningful” activities such as book reading. After the long-term ... -
A Malaysian private university's alumni and students' experiential learning process in an outdoor programme
(University of Canterbury, 2021)The Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education has emphasised the importance of soft skills that higher learning institutions need to include in their curricula to graduate holistic, entrepreneurial and balanced students. Soft ... -
Integrating Scrum With Other Design Approaches to Support Student Innovation Projects
(IGI Global, 2021)Students who are innovating in a project-based context need appropriate frameworks to support applied research that is easily understandable, flexible to different contexts, and appropriate to their needs. Such support is ... -
The effect on student behaviour and achievement of removing incentives to complete online formative assessments
(Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 2021)This research explored the effect of incentives to complete online quizzes during a course. When a 1% weighting incentive per quiz was removed, student engagement dropped dramatically. There is also evidence that students ... -
The relationship between literacy, self-efficacy and behaviour across the early years of school in New Zealand
(University of Canterbury, 2021)The correlation between self-efficacy, literacy and behaviour has the potential to have a long lasting impact on students’ academic achievement, psychosocial development, and wider societal success. While each of these ... -
Why and how people over forty continue with lifestyle sports : changes in practice and meaning.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)This study inquired into why and how people approaching middle age continue to engage in the lifestyle sports of surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding. Lifestyle sports is a term used for sports like surfing, skateboarding ... -
Matangia ‘i Namo : science teachers’ and students’ conceptualisations of local environmental and climate change issues : talanoa from Ha‘apai and Port Vila
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Pacific communities in both rural and urban settings are experiencing the impacts of the global climate crisis, as well as non-climatic factors, on their local ecosystems. Developing adaptation strategies to respond to ... -
The dance of the best hopes: how a solution-focused counsellor ‘leads from one step behind’ in the best hopes discussion
(University of Canterbury, 2021)‘What are your best hopes from our talking?’ or a variation of this question, is one of the most common openings in solution-focused brief therapy sessions. The best hopes question is designed to begin a dialogue about the ... -
The identification and classification of reading disorders based on the simple view of reading.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Poor readers are not a homogeneous group of children. Instead, the aetiology and the magnitude of their reading difficulties vary from child to child. Many researchers have attempted to explain this variation through the ... -
Teaching reading to Asian students with English as an additional language in innovative learning environments in comparison to single cell traditional classrooms
(University of Canterbury, 2021)This thesis grew out of two interests: (i) the New Zealand Government’s investment in building flexible, open learning spaces (innovative learning environments) in primary schools; and (ii) the ongoing achievement gaps in ... -
Evaluating the Toolbox Parenting Courses: A Retrospective Survey of Participants from 2013 to 2017
(2018)Parents in Aotearoa New Zealand have access to a wide variety of parenting resources to assist them with their parenting strategies, improve the social-emotional climate of their home, and manage challenging behaviours ... -
Editorial: PBRF changes
(Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library, 2021)Over the last 18 years successive governments have tried various schemes to reward and encourage good research, without actually conducting much research into the effectiveness of the rewards and discouragements inherent ... -
The contribution of phonological and morphological awareness to word reading ability in L1 Hindi/ L2 English bilingual children: within-language and cross-language influences from L1 to L2.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)The ability to read materials, such as textbooks, is vital to achieve academic success in education. In many cases, such as the one considered in this thesis (that of India), this may require the acquisition of reading in ... -
A Review of Indigenous Second Language Acquisition: Factors leading to proficiency in te reo Māori (the Māori language)
(2011)This review draws on literature from Reversing Language Shift (RLS), Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Māori and indigenous language education to identify help/hinder factors for second language (L2) proficiency ... -
Relationships between syntactic awareness and writing ability for adult ESL learners.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)This thesis investigated the relationship between syntactic awareness and writing in English as a Second Language (ESL) among Chinese adult learners. In order to assess this relationship, additional measures that have been ... -
Gay and Lesbian Collaborative Co-Parenting in New Zealand and the UK: ‘The Law Doesn’t Protect the Third Parent’
(SAGE Publications, 2020)In many jurisdictions, legislation reflects, retains and reiterates heteronormative two-parent models of family. Lesbian and gay individuals and an increasing number of heterosexual individuals who choose to parent outside ...
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