As of June 1, NZCER is using updated national reference information to report stanines and generate boxplots for PAT Pānui | ...

These transitions, which were still in progress at the time of the 2024 survey and our latest report on primary principal ...

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He Taonga te Tamaiti, Every Child a Taonga: Early Learning Action Plan 2019–2029 (Ministry of Education, 2019) presents goals directed towards strengthening quality provision in early childhood ...

The Infants' Lives in Childcare research project aims to investigate what life is like for infants in group care from the perspective of infants themselves. One outcome of the project is a greater ...

For some years now the Finke River Mission has been concerned about the educational programme at Hermannsburg. There was very low correlation between the amount of effort and resources provided and ...

In three separate research projects involving Māori and Pasifika lower SES students in the Auckland region, the dominant theme to emerge is the critical importance of the relationship between teacher ...

In order to fully engage with children's thinking, teachers need to develop practices which allow them to engage in in-depth dialogue with individuals or small groups of children, with minimal ...

Directions for Assessment in New Zealand (DANZ), published in March 2009, was written to provide strategic advice to the Ministry of Education to guide and inform the design of new and improved ...

Despite the excellent research of Janet Emig, Donald Graves and others, the writing process itself is still largely a mystery. We know that it is a very complex process requiring the mastery of a ...

Central to New Zealand National Standards is the concept of overall teacher judgements (OTJs). This paper examines the concepts of OTJs and standards through international literature and experiences ...

What approach might be helpful in identifying culturally appropriate means of caring for Māori learners with special needs? This article reports ongoing research to develop and trial a cultural audit ...