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Mapping first semester challenges : first-year students making sense of their teaching and learning environments
This thesis investigates first-year students' challenges in making sense of the learning and teaching environment during their first semester at university. The aims for the research are threefold. Firstly, mapping the ...
Creativity: Teachers' Beliefs and Practices
This study explored teachers’ implicit theories of creativity and how it is fostered in the classroom. There were two studies, the preliminary study and the main study. The preliminary study included one questionnaire to ...
Invisible Women
A qualitative study of educational leaders who are mothers of colour in the context of Aotearoa.
What can secondary student teachers learn from a day in a primary school? The impact of a primary field observation in secondary initial teacher education
This research examined the effects of a 1-day observation in a primary school for the 2012 (n = 68) and 2013 (n = 65) cohorts of secondary initial teacher education (ITE) students in New Zealand. Reflective journal entries ...
Slipping Down Ladders and Climbing Up Snakes: The Educational Experiences of Young Adults who were in Foster Care
Education has the potential to make a significant contribution towards improving the life-chances of children and young people in state care. However, despite a growing overseas body of research literature on the education ...
Perceptions of Relational Aggression among New Zealand Adolescent Girls and their Classroom Teachers: The Popular, the Regular, and the Tough Girls
Relational aggression concerns behaviours intended to harm someone by damaging or manipulating relationships or feelings of acceptance, friendship, or group inclusion (Crick & Grotpeter, 1995). The purpose of this study ...
New Zealand's National Education Monitoring Project 1995-2009. The Pre-Conception, Conception, Realisation, and Contribution of an Educationally Principled Large-Scale Assessment Programme
This thesis is a researched account of the factors that gave rise to New Zealand's National Education Monitoring Project, the design and practice of the project, and the contribution it made to knowledge of student achievement ...