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

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

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 ...

Once we’ve shaped an inquiry into our own teaching, should we share our question with the students in the class? There are many reasons why teachers might hesitate to share their inquiry questions ...

This article deals with several problems associated with metaphors commonly used for scientific concepts associated with the topic of evolution. First, a pragmatic linguistic approach is used to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Views the recent revision of a national writing assessment tool, e-asTTle : Writing (2012), from theoretical, design and implementation, and practice perspectives. Considers it in relation to the ...

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 ...

In Q&A Pam Hook reflects on what drew her to SOLO taxonomy and why she is so motivated to develop its classroom-based use to enhance student learning. She explains what SOLO is and how it can help ...