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Language Pedagogy and Non-transience in the Flipped Classroom
(University of Canterbury. School of Teacher Education, 2016)High connectivity at tertiary institutions, and students who are often equipped with laptops and/or tablets as well as smartphones, have resulted in language learners being able to freely access technology and the ... -
Respondent driven sampling of wheelchair users: A lack of traction?
(University of Canterbury. School of Health Sciences, 2016)Background: Internationally, wheelchair users are an emerging demographic phenomenon, due to their increased prevalence and rapidly increasing life-span. While having significant healthcare implications, basic robust ... -
Experiences of Using Wiki as a Participatory Learning Tool in Teacher Education
(University of Canterbury. School of Teacher Education, 2016)Wikis have potential for facilitating learning in the online environment but studies have identified varying degrees of success. The implementation of a new learning management system at the university provided a context ... -
Primary and Secondary Virtual Learning in New Zealand: Examining the Process of Achieving Maturity
(University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Leadership, 2016)This paper describes the organizational development of virtual learning in networked rural and other schools in New Zealand in 2011, specifically the obstacles that e-learning clusters of rural schools faced in their journey ... -
Reading for 11 to 13 year old students in the digital age: New Zealand case studies
(University of Canterbury. School of Teacher Education, 2016)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 ... -
Water fluoridation and ethnic inequities in dental caries profiles of New Zealand children aged 5 and 12-13 years: analysis of national cross-sectional registry databases for the decade 2004-2013
(University of Canterbury. School of Health Sciences, 2016)Background: Gross and important inequities have historically existed in the oral health profiles of New Zealand children. Following the New Zealand Government's strategic oral health vision, launched in 2006, nationally ... -
Leading change in reading for young adolescents: What is happening in New Zealand?
(University of Canterbury. School of Teacher Education, 2016)Principals need to be cognisant of the importance of reading as a success factor for young adolescent students. At this time in their schooling, effective reading and comprehending are pre-requisites for success in a wide ... -
Learning communities, doctorates, and partnerships for development: a case study
(University of Canterbury. College Office (Education, Health and Human Development)University of Canterbury. School of Teacher Education, 2016)In the doctoral rooms in the faculty of education where the authors of this article are located there are more international students than domestic ones. One of the reasons is that domestic students tend to be practising ... -
Editorial: Engaging in open, flexible, and distance learning with a new editorial team
(University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Leadership, 2014)This editorial provides insights into the processes of scholarly publishing, at a time of handover to a new editorial team, to publicise evidence of quality processes and leadership. Publishing trends are also briefly ... -
Socialisation, culture and the foundations of expertise in elite level Indigenous Australian sportsmen
(University of Canterbury. School of Sport & Physical Education, 2016)This article reports on an ongoing study that investigates the development of expertise in rugby league and Australian football by Indigenous Australians as a socially and culturally situated process of learning. Focused ... -
What can we learn from young adolescents' perceptions about the teaching of reading?
(University of Canterbury. School of Teacher Education, 2016)Young adolescent students are at a critical time in their schooling. Once they embark into secondary schooling their prospects of achieving well across a range of curriculum subjects can often depend on their ability to ... -
What can we do to support reading for young adolescent students?
(University of Canterbury. School of Teacher Education, 2016)Young adolescents are at a critical stage in their schooling. They are consolidating and improving their reading skills. By exploring what supports these 11- to 13-year-old students in reading from a wider systemic ... -
Teacher-student interaction, empathy and their influence on learning in swimming lessons
(University of Canterbury. School of Sport &Physical Education, 2016)The bulk of interest in the role that interaction plays in learning in sport and physical education has focused on peer interaction at the expense of teacher-student interaction. This article redresses this imbalance in ... -
Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching
(University of Canterbury. School of Sport &Physical Education, 2016)The literature suggests that, despite some challenges in their implementation, player/athlete-centred, inquiry-based approaches to teaching games and coaching team sport can improving game playing ability, increase ... -
Epidemiology of dental caries among adolescents in Tamil Nadu, India
(University of Canterbury. School of Health Sciences, 2016)Objective Economic and dietary changes in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu have led to compromised oral health status of the adolescent population. Adequate epidemiological data are not available to address the prevention ... -
What supports 11 to 13 year old Pasifika students in mathematics learning in New Zealand classrooms?
(University of Canterbury. School of Teacher Education, 2016)The steepest decline in achievement in New Zealand primary schools occurs in Years 7 and 8, with the greatest decline in the subject area of mathematics. The cohort that achieves at the lowest level in New Zealand schools ... -
The Nature of Primary Students' Conversation in Technology Education
(University of Canterbury. School of Teacher Education, 2016)This study analyses the actual nature (sources and purposes) of conversation that contributes to learning in technology education in the primary classroom, rather than conversation content or impact. It uses a qualitative ... -
The New Zealand Articulation Test norms project
(New Zealand Journal of Speech-Language Therapy, 2005)The purpose of the New Zealand Articulation Test norms project was to provide normative data on the test for junior primary school children in New Zealand. The NZAT consists of 82 picture stimuli which elicit single word ... -
Using a radial ultrasound probe's virtual origin to compute midsagittal smoothing splines in polar coordinates
(University of Canterbury. New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain & Behaviour, 2015)Tongue surface measurements from midsagittal ultrasound scans are effectively arcs with deviations representing tongue shape, but smoothing-spline analysis of variances (SSANOVAs) assume variance around a horizontal ...
