University of Waikato Research

• Social work education: Reflections during Covid-19 lockdown 

  Glubb-Smith, Kelly J.; Roberts, Tania (University of Otago Library, 2020)

  Teaching social work students in Aotearoa New Zealand during the Covid-19 crisis produced an acute awareness of the impact of lockdown levels 3 and 4 on student wellbeing. Students were required to rapidly adapt to study ...

  

• Retained primitive reflexes: Perceptions of parents who have used Rhythmic Movement Training with their children 

  Grigg, Tessa M.; Fox-Turnbull, Wendy Helen; Culpan, Ian G. (SAGE Publications, 2018)

  This article reports on a qualitative phenomenological research project that investigated the use of Rhythmic Movement Training (RMT) as an intervention for retained primitive reflexes. Participants were from seven families ...

  

• Action sport media consumption trends across generations: Exploring the Olympic audience and the impact of action sports inclusion 

  Wheaton, Belinda; Thorpe, Holly (Sage Publications Inc, 2019)

  The ageing demographics of Olympic viewers is a key concern for the International Olympic Committee. The inclusion of action sports into the Olympic programmes has been a key strategy to try and connect with youth consumers, ...

  

• Towards transforming OpenFlow rulesets to fit fixed-function pipelines 

  Sanger, Richard; Luckie, Matthew John; Nelson, Richard (ACM, 2020)

  OpenFlow feature support differs between devices due to devicespecific hardware constraints. OpenFlow places the burden of addressing these differences on the controller, which increases development cost and restricts ...

  

• A whole-school approach to developing resilience: Resources and suggestions for New Zealand schools 

  Poultney, Rachel; Forbes, Dianne (Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, University of Waikato, 2020)

  In learning and life, there will always be challenges, requiring resilience to overcome, adapt, and persist in the face of adversity. Resilience is a key aspect of mental health and lifelong learning, reflected in the ...

  

• A framework for mixed reality free-choice, self-determined learning 

  Aguayo, Claudio; Eames, Chris W.; Cochrane, Chris W. (Association for Learning Technology, 2020)

  In this article, we present a theoretical framework for mixed reality (MR/XR) self-determined learning to enhance ecological literacy in free-choice educational settings. The framework emerged from a research study in New ...

  

• Wondering about ... the intimate geographies of Married at First Sight New Zealand #MAFSNZ 

  Johnston, Lynda (The Board of Geography Teachers New Zealand, 2019)

  Why should I, or any geographers, be wondering about Married at First Sight New Zealand (MAFSNZ, TV3 2019), the franchised reality television show where strangers meet each other at the alter? Pitched, as a ‘ground-breaking ...

  

• Comparison of strength and Young modulus of aligned discontinuous fibre PLA composites obtained experimentally and from theoretical prediction models 

  Efendy, M.G. Aruan; Pickering, Kim L. (Elsevier, 2019)

  The present paper describes work carried out to compare the strength performance of PLA reinforced aligned discontinuous harakeke and hemp fibre mat composites evaluated experimentally and using various simple elastic ...

  

• Lifestyle sport, public policy and youth engagement 

  Gilchrist, Paul; Wheaton, Belinda (Sage, 2013)

  In this paper we consider the development of parkour in the South of England, and its use in public policy debates and initiatives around youth, physical activity, and risk. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with ...

  

• In-situ fluorescence monitoring of cyanobacteria: Laboratory-based quantification of species-specific measurement accuracy. 

  Bertone, Edoardo; Chuang, Ann; Burford, Michele A.; Hamilton, David P. (Elsevier, 2019)

  In recent years, in-situ fluorometers have been extensively deployed to monitor cyanobacteria in near real-time. Acceptable accuracy can be achieved between measured pigments and cyanobacteria biovolume provided the ...

• Forgotten or never consciously processed? A comparison of immediate and delayed recall of driving details 

  Richards, Devin S.; Charlton, Samuel G. (Elsevier BV, 2020)

  After driving a familiar route, people often have a poor memory of the drive. To investigate how quickly people forget information from an everyday drive we asked participants (n = 38) to take a 20-min simulated drive on ...

  

• Growth and magmatic evolution of Tongariro and Raupehu volcanoes, New Zealand 

  Hobden, Barbara J.; Price, Richard C.; Gamble, John A.; Stewart, Robert B. (University of Waikato, Hamilton., 2001)

  The aim of this excursion is to examine new work on the eruptive and magmatic histories of Tongariro and Ruapehu Volcanoes. By integrating geochemical and isotopic analyses within a well-constrained framework of geochronology ...

  

• Mutually orthogonal binary frequency squares 

  Britz, Thomas; Cavenagh, Nicholas J.; Mammoliti, Adam; Wanless, Ian M. (The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2020)

  A frequency square is a matrix in which each row and column is a permutation of the same multiset of symbols. We consider only binary frequency squares of order n with n/2 zeros and n/2 ones in each row and column. Two ...

  

• Being a language learner—Is that all there is? 

  Lee, Jinah (TESOLANZ, 2017)

  Asian migrants are inevitably categorised as language learners. At times, it is the migrant's own definition and can be used as a support. At others, it is an imposition in two senses: it can be imposed by others and by ...

  

• The Professional Practice of Teaching in New Zealand (6th Edition), edited by Mary F. Hill & Martin Thrupp [BOOK REVIEW] 

  Wright, Noeline (New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2020)

  The Sixth Edition of The Professional Practice of Teaching in New Zealand (Eds Mary F. Hill and Martin Thrupp) updates this long standing initial teacher education (ITE) text. It has a new look and the chapters convey a ...

• Introduction to papers in this issue 

  Earl Rinehart, (Suzanne) Kerry; Mills, Judith Patricia (University of Waikato, 2019)

  We are pleased to present our General Issue of Teachers and Curriculum for 2019. Thank you to our established reviewers and authors for their continued support, and thank you to those new and emerging researchers who give ...

  

• Engaging tertiary educators in the development of their assessment literacy 

  Edwards, Frances (2020)

  Using assessment to inform teaching and to measure learning outcomes is of critical importance in higher education. However, many tertiary educators are not sufficiently knowledgeable or prepared to do this confidently. ...

  

• Teachers’ reflecting on professional knowledge in the numeracy (mathematics) classroom 

  Mills, Judith Patricia (2020)

  New Zealand primary school teachers are expected to regularly reflect on their teaching practice in order to consider the implications of past teaching on future planning. Aligned to teachers’ ongoing reflection, the New ...

  

• The history of transportations of stoats (Mustela erminea) and weasels (M. nivalis) to New Zealand, 1883–92 

  King, Carolyn M. (ANU Press, 2017)

  This article presents an intensive original analysis of the history of the first deliberate transportations of non-domesticated European predators into southern New Zealand during the second half of the nineteenth century. ...

  

• Indian teachers and environmental identity in Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood education 

  Rathore, Devika; Eames, Chris W.; Kelly-Ware, Janette Patricia (Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, Division of Education, University of Waikato, 2020)

  The Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood education (ECE) landscape is becoming increasingly multicultural, in particular with a significant number of migrant Indian teachers working in the field. This paper explores the ...

  

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