Using the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) multiple times in an undergraduate business school course in a University in New Zealand, 188 students completed the questionnaire to explore how students’ motivation and strategy use changed as they progressed and how these...

A frequently stated hallmark of certified green homes is that they are ‘healthier’ and provide superior thermal comfort. This usually requires increasing insulation levels from code requirements on the understanding that this will provide a warmer, drier internal environment. However this...

New Zealand is hamstrung by a housing crisis. Although the discourse primarily focuses on housing affordability and homelessness, there is a more pervasive problem afflicting New Zealanders: that New Zealand homes are substandard, being cold, damp and difficult to heat. This article reviews the...

It is recognized that as humans age, their ability to withstand high or low temperatures reduces. Temperature extremes can also worsen chronic conditions, including cardiovascular, respiratory and other health issues. This study analyses 40 apartments in a single building in Auckland, New...

It is accepted in both popular culture and the academic literature that ‘cold and damp’ housing leads to poor health outcomes for occupants. Many solutions have been proposed to remedy this from voluntary healthy home checklists, green building ratings tools to mandatory government...

New Zealand has one of the highest asthma rates in the world, frequently linked to the quality of housing. A confirmed causal factor for asthma is the dust mite allergen, with environmental factors such as temperature and relative humidity (RH) linked to the proliferation of dust mites. Whilst...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine housing speculation in Auckland, New Zealand, the second most unaffordable market in the world.Design/methodology/approach – The study considers rental property purchases from 2002 to 2016within the Auckland region. The authors apply a simple...

Many housing markets across the globe have experienced upward trends in real estate prices during the past two decades. The dynamics between housing prices and speculation have been analysed by existing housing literature, but this study has a few features that may deepen the understanding of...

This research examines housing price volatility and its determinants in Auckland, New Zealand. It differs from the existing literature by dividing residential sales into four groups: leveraged investment (LI), leveraged owner-occupancy (LO), unleveraged investment (UI) and unleveraged...

Although electronic educational tools have become popular, few studies have considered their effectiveness. Some studies have investigated the effectiveness of the tools’ “game” aspects. We investigated students’ perceptions of the classroom tools that they used and their perceived...