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by surname of the first author.

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Full reports of each probe study will be available on this website by January 2004.

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ARTS
Children’s Attitudes to Music Roger Buckton
Curriculum Studies in Music Education:
Group dynamics within the NEMP group and team tasks

 Peh Siew Hoon
Significance of variable factors in practical art tasks in
National Education Monitoring Project 		Roger Hardie & Rob McGregor
An Investigation into Children's Ability to Recognise Pitch
and/or Rhythmic Sequence Patterns

 David Sell
Frequencies and Kinds of Inaccuracies in Children's Sightreading David Sell
The Role of Singing in the NEMP Tests

 Sue Braatvedt
CROSS-CURRICULAR
Mining the Information: Cognitive Skills in NEMP Tasks

 Gwen Gawith
Essential Skills: Examination of Essential Skills Performance

 Gordon Knight 
ENGLISH
Analysis of Children's Written and Oral Language Judith Catton
Gender Differences in New Zealand Primary Students'
Reading Achievement
 Liz Eley
Gender Differences in New Zealand Primary Students' Attitude to Reading
 Liz Eley
Assessing Children’s Comprehension through Oral Language
 Ray Griffiths
Teacher Perceptions of Students and Their Affect on Assessment of Speaking Performance Lynne Bowyer & Tamsin Meaney
An Analysis of Year 4 and Year 8 Spelling Errors From an Expressive Writing Task in the 2006 National Education Monitoring Project Keith Greaney & Alison Arrow

HEALTH & PHYSICAL FITNESS
Toward an understanding of New Zealand children’s constructions of ‘health’ and ‘fitness’

 Lissette Burrows, Jan Wright & Justine Jungersen-Smith

INFORMATION SKILLS

Evaluation of the use of the NEMP compact model of the World
Wide Web for exploring children's Information Skills

 Kwok-Wing Lai &
Keryn Pratt
MATHEMATICS
Students’ Conjectures and Justifications Glenda Anthony & Margaret Walshaw
Fractions Assessment Using a Real Context Glenda Anthony & Margaret Walshaw
The Data Mining of the 2001 NEMP year 8 Mathematics
Dataset Using Cluster Analysis		 Garth Ritchie 
A Study of changes in Mathematics Achievement Using Data
from the first and Second cycles of NEMP Assessment		 Gordon Knight 
Language used by students in mathematics for quantitative and numerical comparisons Dr Tamsin Meaney &
Dr Kathryn C. Irwin
A Socialcultural Analysis of Children's participation in a Mathematical Task Bronwen Cowie and Merilyn Taylor
Children's Strategies in Numeracy Activity Jane McChesney
Teaching and Learning about Place Value at The Year 4 Level Jeremy Bloomfield
SCIENCE

Using NEMP to Inform the Teaching of Scientific Skills

 Rose Hipkins & Natasha Kenneally
SOCIAL STUDIES
Social Decision-Making Skills: Are Students Achieving in this Process

 Christine Harris 
Assessing Year 8 students' knowledge and understanding about New Zealand society. Isabel Browne &
Eleanor Hawe 
TECHNOLOGY
Primary School Technology from the Perspectives of the Students

 Liz Eley
Progression in Learning Technology at Years 4 and 8 Alister Jones, Ann Harlow, Louise Milne, Judy Moreland & Mike Forret 
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