scholarly journals The Assessment Resource Banks: From National Testing to a School-Based Resource

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cedric Croft
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Development Phase ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
School Based ◽  
Reliable Assessment ◽  
Early Development Phase ◽  
National Testing ◽  
Assessment Resource ◽  
Mathematics And Science

The Assessment Resource Banks (ARBs) in English, mathematics and science have been designed to reflect current New Zealand curriculum statements and provide schools with an ever-increasing range of valid and reliable assessment material. They are available on the Internet and are now established as the main source of school-based assessment material for New Zealand schools. During their early development phase, national and school-based uses were seen as dual elements, but they now function exclusively within a school-based environment. This article outlines the development and present structure of the ARBs, discusses their consolidation as a school-based resource, and suggests future directions.

scholarly journals Assessment Resource Banks for School-Based and National Assessment

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cedric Croft
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Internet ◽  
National Assessment ◽  
Teaching Objectives ◽  
School Based ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Assessment Policy ◽  
Item Banks ◽  
Assessment Resource ◽  
Mathematics And Science

The New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) is developing assessment resource banks (ARBs) in mathematics and science. The ARBs are broader than traditional item banks, as they contain assessment resources varying from selected-response items to practical tasks. They reflect current New Zealand curriculum statements in mathematics and science, and are presented as computerised databases with classification and retrieval systems which enable users to select assessment material to match teaching objectives. The ARBs are available via the Internet for school-based uses within New Zealand. Their possible role in national assessment policy is also being considered. This article outlines the development and structure of the ARBs, summarises an evaluation of school-based and national uses undertaken in 1996, and discusses the future possibilities of ARBs for school-based and national assessment purposes.

The Internet and public policy: Future directions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Margetts ◽  
Vili Lehdonvirta ◽  
Sandra González‐Bailón ◽  
Jonathon Hutchinson ◽  
Jonathan Bright ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Future Directions

Enhancing probation practice and safety with smartphone applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darius Fagan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Community Corrections ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Smartphone Applications ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Department Of Corrections ◽  
Day To Day Operations

As technology continues to improve and become more intertwined with our everyday activities, more and more opportunities present themselves for using technology to enhance the work that we do. This article outlines the introduction of Samsung smartphones to a large number of the Department of Corrections’ workforce, as well as giving details on two applications that are being used to improve the day-to-day operations and safety of our community corrections staff in New Zealand. In early 2014, The New Zealand Department of Corrections rolled out Samsung smartphones to over 3000 staff, to aid them with their day-to-day work operations. The idea behind providing staff with smartphones was to allow staff to use their work email and calendar on-the-go, as well as to access the internet when out of the office. The introduction of smartphones represented a marked leap forward in staff mobility and productivity.

scholarly journals Pathways: lessons learned and future directions for school-based interventions among American Indians

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. S107-S112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Gittelsohn ◽  
Sally M Davis ◽  
Allan Steckler ◽  
Becky Ethelbah ◽  
Theresa Clay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
American Indians ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
School Based ◽  
School Based Interventions

Reading, Encoding, Annotating, and Pondering Technique As Learning Process In Pandemic Era to Improve Reading Comprehension Stability or Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Ferri Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
The Internet ◽  
School Based ◽  
Comprehension Ability ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Student Observation ◽  
Reading Comprehension Ability

The students' reading comprehension is very lowat the pandemic era, Theyare difficult to understand  the text, they don’t haveEnough English vocabulary, Many teachers/lecturer used  techniques that wereless precise in teaching reading, and the students got reading comprehension scores below the minimum completion criteria (KKM). This research aims to determine whether using Reading, Encoding, Annotating, and Pondering techhnique as Learning process in pandemic era to improve reading comprehension stability for students.This research is conducted by using descriptive qualitative method, which describe of students’s problem at pandemic era by zoom in the Internet after that, analyze the data which used percentage.The researcher also has done pre-assesment for supporting accurate data.The subjects of this research were 20 students, consisted 11 females and 9 males. The subject Instrument used in this research is reading comprehension test, researcher observation cheklits and field notes, student observation Cheklist and field notes, interview and documentation by zoom at the Internet. According to avarage results, the increasing for  students' reading comprehension ability on the pre-assessment  is the average student reaches, (55.14%), learning 1  (62.15%), learning 2  (70.14%), and learning 3 (75.65%)  avarage students’ score increase and got standardization of school. Based on the result in each levels which  there is  indeed REAP technique could increasing students’ reading comprehension text.

School‐Based Bullying Intervention Programs in Australia and New Zealand

2021 ◽  
pp. 510-526
Author(s):  
Donna Cross ◽  
Amy Barnes ◽  
Melanie Epstein ◽  
Natasha Pearce ◽  
Kevin Runions ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Bullying Intervention ◽  
School Based

scholarly journals The corporate takeover of the online public sphere: A critical examination, with reference to 'the New Zealand case'

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lincoln Dahlberg
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Multiple Alternative ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control

Much communications research is in agreement about the failure of mass media to adequately facilitate a public sphere of open and reflexive debate necessary for strong democratic culture. In contrast , the internet's decentralised, two-way communication is seen by many commentators to be extending such debate. However, there is some ambivalence among critical theorists as to the future role of the internet in advancing the public sphere. On the one hand, the internet is providing the means fot the voicing of positions and identities excluded from the mass media. On the other hand, a number of problem are limiting the extensiveness and effetivness of this voicing. One of the most significant problems is the corporate colonisation of cyberspace, and subsequent marginalisation rational-critical communication. It is this problem that i will focus on in this article, with reference to examples from what I refer to as the 'New Zealand online public sphere'. I show how online corporate portals and media sites are gaining the most attention orientated to public communication, including news, information, and discussion. These sites generally support conservative discourse and consumer practices. The result is a marginalisation online of the very voices marginalised offline, and also of the critical-reflexive form of communication that makes for a strong public sphere. I conclude by noting that corporate colonisation is as yet only partial, and control of attention and media is highly contested by multiple 'alternative' discursive spaces online.

scholarly journals Rolling back Modernity: Selective Tradition and Contemporary Literary Politics in the South Pacific

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lawn
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Cultural Participation ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Selective Tradition ◽  
Literary Politics ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

This article relates Raymond Williams’s concept of “selective tradition” to the shaping of literary history in Aotearoa New Zealand. It makes the case for the ongoing salience of Williams’s narrative of modernity as a “long revolution,” and his sense of the threats to democratic and cultural participation around the turn of the 21st century, as a framework for situating recent cultural politics. The article closes with some suggestions for possible future directions for the development of locally-based materialist literary criticism.

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