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Teaching and Learning in Middle Schooling: A Review of the Literature

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This paper is a summary of a review of literature carried out in 2007 for the Ministry of Education by Dinham and Rowe of the Australian Council for Educational Research.

Their review, and the summary presented here, are components of a Ministry research programme focused on teaching and learning in the middle schooling years. Other projects within the programme include: a "Study of Students’ Transition from Primary to Secondary Schooling"; an investigation of the skills, knowledge and values that may be required by teachers to most effectively meet the needs of Years 7 to 10 students; and an in-depth analysis of ‘student engagement’ during the middle schooling years.

Author(s): Ministry of Education

Date Published: March 2009

Background

The literature review on teaching and learning for students in the middle schooling years summarised in this paper was undertaken in 2007. It was commissioned by the New Zealand Ministry of Education following identification of the following issues:

  • limited quality data on middle schooling outcomes in New Zealand;
  • the need to develop an evidence base to inform decisions and policy development in relation to middle schooling;
  • the need to ensure that decisions are informed by the best evidence about effective curriculum and pedagogical approaches in the middle years of schooling; and
  • the need for a coherent, coordinated approach to establishing and generating an evidence base related to middle schooling, including options for wider research on early adolescent education in the middle years.

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