When asked what they would change about their work, 76% of teachers indicated they would want more support staff, compared to ...

NZCER has run a National Survey of Primary Schools regularly since 1989, with the last survey of primary school teachers ...

Given Aotearoa New Zealand’s high need for anti-bullying initiatives and the advantages of a coordinated, community-wide approach, the project’s aim was to introduce KiVa across one Kāhui Ako and ...

Science education has an important role to play in supporting our young people to meet the complex challenges of the modern age. Students need a curriculum that can prepare them to work ...

•&&Relationships and interactions between teachers and students in the classroom are key to effective teaching of Māori students. •&&Effective teachers take a positive, nondeficit view of Māori ...

Global issues, such as ecological sustainability, can be difficult topics to address in early childhood education. This article reports on a research project exploring an approach based on the idea of ...

New curriculum content for teaching Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories (ANZH) and Te Takanga o te Wā (TToTW) was gazetted in 2022, for schools and kura to begin using in 2023. The release of this ...

Jacoba Matapo, Associate Dean Pasifika in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, opens this discussion by introducing herself by way of her pepha; which she says is integral ...

As schools gear up for Term 1, assessment will be at the forefront of many teachers' minds. NZCER offers many options for assessing literacy and mathematics, from our suite of Progressive Achievement ...

Whānau reports are designed to be simple summaries of how an ākonga has done in a PAT, including national averages and the margin of error. As with all PAT ...

The incoming NCEA co-requisite could do more harm than good in its current form. From 2024 students must achieve a co-requisite in literacy and numeracy|te reo matatini me te pāngarau to be awarded an ...