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LinkedIn for Personnel Recruitment and Selection: A New Zealand perspective
(University of Waikato, 2015)This study explored how the professional networking site LinkedIn is being used and perceived by recruitment and selection practitioners within New Zealand organisations. In recent times LinkedIn has seen large increases ... -
Linking multimetric and multivariate approaches to assess the ecological condition of streams
(Springer, 2009)Few attempts have been made to combine multimetric and multivariate analyses for bioassessment despite recognition that an integrated method could yield powerful tools for bioassessment. An approach is described that ... -
Linking proximal ignimbrites and coeval distal tephra deposits to establish a record of voluminous Early Quaternary (2.4–1.9 Ma) volcanism of the Tauranga Volcanic Centre, New Zealand
(Elsevier, 2022)The Tauranga Volcanic Centre (TgaVC) of the North Island, New Zealand, was active from 2.95 to 1.9 Ma. It lies temporally and spatially between the currently active Taupō Volcanic Zone, one of the most productive regions ... -
The links between poverty and the environment in Malawi
(Waikato Management School, 2009-11)Deforestation arising from conversion of forest areas into agriculture is a serious problem in Malawi. Cultivation of subsistence and cash crops is often cited as a major cause of this problem. This paper applies the von ... -
Listen to tipple: Creating a mobile digital library with location-triggered audio books
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)This paper explores the role of audio as a means to access ebooks while the user is at the locations that are referred to in the books. The books are sourced from a digital library and can either be accompanied by pre-recorded ... -
Listening and Learning from Rangatahi Māori: the Voices of Māori Youth
(Academy For Educational Studies (AES), 2017)This paper presents three stories-over-time of the secondary schooling experiences of New Zealand’s rangatahi Māori–or Māori youth. The stories span fifteen years of New Zealand schooling and are told from three perspectives: ... -
Listening to micro-business operators: what are their social and educational needs?
(Centre for Social Change Research, Queensland University of Technology, 2004-10-29)This paper discusses issues that had been revealed during 15 in-depth interviews and a subsequent questionnaire survey of 91 micro-business (five or fewer employees) operators in Hamilton, New Zealand. ‘How to support ... -
Listening to the voices of Year 13 Māori students: A case study in a New Zealand secondary school
(The University of Waikato, 2008)This research focuses on listening to the voices of Year 13 academically successful Māori students in a large, urban, mainstream, co-educational, decile 4, New Zealand secondary school. Traditionally, researchers have ... -
Listening to the Winds of Change: Assessing culturally responsive and relational pedagogy
(University of Waikato, 2017)This thesis examines how the Rongohia te Hau tools were used to capture a snapshot of the extent that culturally responsive and relational pedagogies were occurring within classrooms in two English-medium secondary schools ... -
Literacy and Thinking Tools for Science Teachers
(Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc, 2007)Literacy and thinking tools, such as Venn diagrams, are construction tools for the mind. Just as carpenters use tools to construct a piece of furniture, literate thinkers learning science can use tools to construct new ... -
Literacy assessment practices: Moving from standardised to ecologically valid assessments in secondary schools
(Multilingual Matters, 2007)SSLI test protocol data revealed the dominance of 'central' literacy measures and 'local' subject-specific measures aligned to institutional requirements, curriculum and national examination content. These measures initiate ... -
Literacy research methodology that is up to the challenge
(Multilingual Matters, 2007)This paper outlines the methodological dimensions of the secondary literacy research evaluation that is the focus of this special issue-the New Zealand-based Secondary Schools' Literacy Initiative (SSLI). We argue that ... -
A literature review exploring a meaning for the term 'curriculum leadership'.
(Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2000)Research on leadership in education often focuses on school management, educational change or curriculum development. There is little research however, in the area of curriculum leadership. With the introduction of seven ... -
Literature review on motor skill and physical activity in preschool children in New Zealand
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2017)Children’s physical activity levels have decreased significantly over the past 20 - 30 years, coinciding with obesity rates reaching epidemic levels. There is little research into typically developing preschool (birth to ... -
Literature review: Transition from early childhood education to school
(The Ministry of Education, 2010-07)The review’s purpose was to deepen understanding of transition to school by critically analysing research literature. The focus was on what successful transitions to school look like, the factors that play a role in how ... -
The literature study programme trial: Challenging constructions of English in the Seychelles
(2005)This paper provides an outline of the development and trialling during 2004 of the Literature Study Programme (LSP), a literature programme designed for use in the junior secondary classes of Seychelles. The programme was ... -
Lithofacies distribution and sediment dynamics on a storm-dominated shelf from combined photographic, acoustic and sedimentological profiling methods (Bay of Plenty, New Zealand)
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2016-03)Sediment dynamics on a storm-dominated shelf (western Bay of Plenty, New Zealand) were mapped and analyzed using the newly developed multi-sensor benthic profiler MARUM NERIDIS III. An area of 60 km × 7 km between 2 and ... -
Lithofacies, paleoenvironments and elements of sequence architecture, Late Oligocene - earliest Miocene Castle Craig Subgroup (Te Kuiti Group), Waikato-King Country Basin, New Zealand
(2014)This report presents a comprehensive facies and sequence stratigraphic analysis of the Late Oligocene Castle Craig Subgroup (Orahiri Formation and Otorohanga Limestone) within the Late Eocene – Earliest Miocene Te Kuiti ... -
Lithofacies, paleoenvironments and sequence stratigraphy of the Late Oligocene Aotea Formation (Te Kuiti Group), central-western North Island, New Zealand
(2014)This report presents a comprehensive facies and sequence stratigraphic analysis of the Late Oligocene Aotea Formation within the Late Eocene – Earliest Miocene Te Kuiti Group in the Waikato-King Country Basin in central-western ... -
Lithology and provenance of late Eocene - Oligocene sediments in eastern Taranaki Basin margin and implications for paleogeography
(The University of Waikato, 2009)The latest Eocene and Oligocene was a time of marked paleoenvironmental change in Taranaki Basin, involving a transition from the accumulation of coal measures and inner shelf deposits to the development of upper bathyal ...
