“We have lofty goals when it comes to excellence and equity in our education system – and in a time when many might consider ...

NZCER conducts a comprehensive programme of high-quality research and evaluation work. Our diverse team has extensive expertise in areas such as Māori education, educational leadership, teaching and ...

How should we educate today’s students so that they will be proactive, confident future-builders in the uncertain times ahead? This book explores that question. The authors used a selection of wicked ...

The STAR reading tests are standardised assessment tools, designed to supplement the assessments that teachers make about their students' progress and achievement in reading. Each test assesses a ...

This book examines decolonisation and Māori education in Aotearoa New Zealand in ways that seeks to challenge, unsettle and provoke for change. Editors Jessica Hutchings and Jenny Lee-Morgan have ...

'For over a year I went to classes with two groups of 15-year-old girls . .' The result is a clear account of the way the school and culturally different pupils affected each other. It is not a pretty ...

This widely used test has been revised and standardised for use in New Zealand. It is an individually administered test, which provides a measure of an aspect of a child's word reading skills, ie word ...

This report focuses on the perspectives of whānau Pasifika as they express their attitudes and beliefs about what success looks like for their tamariki and why success is important. It employs the ...

What's to be done to improve things for 'latch key' children, those youngsters with both parents working full time? Working from data collected in one area Anne Meade is able to put together advice to ...

The main reason for the use of essays is probably the belief, usually unwarranted, that essay tests do a better overall job than objective tests of measuring educational achievement. The argument goes ...

Teaching to the North-East responds to the marginalisation of particular groups of students with a way of teaching intended to increase equity in the education system. One way this marginalisation ...

A pragmatic response to the government announcement that New Zealand histories will be taught in all schools by 2022 are the questions of what should be taught, and how? I argue that iwi and hapū must ...