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The paper examines social spending in New Zealand over the period 1981 - 2001 using OECD social expensditure data

This document summarises the thinking behind the needs to develop digital skills training for researchers.

The death of an unborn child is a devastating event which currently affects approximately 500 New Zealand families annually; a rate of 8 per 1000 births. The Auckland Stillbirth Study, which aimed to identify modifiable risk factors for late stillbirth (at or beyond 28 weeks’ gestation), found that women who did not go to sleep on their left side on the...

Funding proposal for the 2015 round of the Vice Chancellor's Strategic Development fund. The aim was to build a training suite to deploy digital skills for research at the University of Auckland

Contains research data management tools, services, some ideas, and database search options

This paper was reviewed, accepted, and discussed at the 2015 European Association for Research and Learning in Instruction conference, Cyprus. It raises issues as to what doctoral education for advanced research methods should look like.

This document provides an overview of the New Methods for New Methods Doctoral Education Project

This is an unfunded grant application to the Volkswagen Stiftung in 2015. It suggests ways that research could be conducted to establish consensus around what needs to be done to prepare new researchers for research beyond doctoral degree.

This published study, drawing on the 2007 technical report, shows that there is great disparity among research supervisors in education as to what research methods can be taught. However, there is strong agreement as to the teachability of those components relative to the competencies successful students require. This version is the author's submitted...

This is an unfunded grant application submitted to the Spencer Foundation in 2016. It recommends using an international digital Delphi Study to generate consensus around what should be taught in quantitative research methods and how it should be taught.

One of the academic understandings that formed the basis of the merger of the Auckland College of Education and The University of Auckland, School of Education to form the Faculty of Education was that evidence-based research would inform faculty teaching. For three years prior to the merger, the School of Education and Auckland College of Education had...

This document summarises in bullet point form interview conducted in summer 2015 with various German academics concerning the methodological needs of doctoral students in education.

Survey instrument for self-administered usage.Please note demographic items differ from secondary school questionnaire. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L. (2006). Teachers’ conceptions of assessment: Validation of an abridged instrument. Psychological Reports, 99(1), 166-170. doi: 10.2466/pr0.99.1.166-170

Survey instrument for self-administered usage. Please note, this survey contains 65 items, see the codebook/data dictionary for full details. As well, demographic items differ from secondary school questionnaire. Inventory results were published in: Brown, G. T. L. (2004). Teachers’ conceptions of assessment: Implications for policy and professional...

Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The full 50 item questionnaire was administered in 2007 for secondary schools, the abridged data information came from this administration. Please note demographic items differ from primary school questionnaire. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L. (2011). Teachers' conceptions of assessment:...

This codebook/data dictionary provides users of the Teacher Conceptions of Assessment Inventory details of the structure of the data files used to analyse the New Zealand data. This codebook needs to be read in conjunction with the following complementary files: 1. The Teacher Conceptions of Assessment Questionnaire or Inventory a. Long with 50 items b....

Survey instrument for self-administered usage.  The item questionnaire was administered in 2003 for students.  Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T., & Hirschfield, G. H. (2007). Students' Conceptions of Assessment and Mathematics: Self-Regulation Raises Achievement. Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 7, 63-74.

Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2004 for students. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L., & Hirschfeld, G. H. F. (2008). Students’ conceptions of assessment: Links to outcomes. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice, 15(1), 3-17. doi:10.1080/09695940701876003...

Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2005 for students. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L. & Hirschfeld, G. H. F. (2005). Secondary school students’ conceptions of assessment. Conceptions of Assessment and Feedback Project Report #4. Auckland: University of Auckland.DOI:...

Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2006 for students. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L. (2006, September). Secondary school students’ conceptions of assessment: A Survey of Four Schools. Conceptions of Assessment and Feedback Project Report #5. Auckland, NZ: University of...