Te Whāriki promotes the use of te reo rangatira in English-medium early childhood education (ECE) settings. There is a growing body of work concerning the use of pukapuka pikitia (picturebooks) to ...

Currently, the Mäori word hauora is translated in New Zealand curricula as health and wellbeing or as health and physical education for Mäori-medium education. "Hauora, wellbeing" is also an ...

Each PAT is designed to assess an important capability, such as reading comprehension, that develops over time and across the ...

The young people who are the subject of the National Child Development Study are now aged 25. For most of their lives they have been monitored by the National Children's Bureau and described in 19 ...

NZCER is excited to introduce new item reporting for the Progressive Achievement Tests (PATs), our standardised assessments ...

The focus section of this issue of set is a collection of articles that discuss various aspects of key competency development in the early primary school years. These articles were selected from a ...

Provides insights into the effect of the values statement in The New Zealand Curriculum on teaching and learning in a small sample of intermediate and secondary schools. Highlights the need for ...

This rapid review was commissioned to assist the New Zealand Drug Foundation (NZDF) to develop youth gambling resources and forms of support for Tūturu. The focus topic is “school-based approaches to ...

This article reports on the first phase of an investigation into the effective transitioning of secondary students to tertiary education through a focus on academic literacy. Action research was used ...

What gives your school its personality, its spirit, its own culture? How can you assess school climate, and improve it? With details and case studies this item introduces the next.

NZCER began regular surveys of primary schools in 1989, focusing on the impact of the educational reforms that began then. In 2003, we added secondary schools. We survey each schooling level every 3 ...

All workers in New Zealand can expect to have their rights to health implemented in their workplaces. For early childhood teachers, health risks extend to the children they care for, as well as their ...