This first report from the 2025 National Survey of Secondary Schools provides a snapshot of secondary principals' ...

The New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) is pleased to announce the launch of PAT Tuhituhi Te Pihinga – a ...

How can schools and organisations in Aotearoa measure wellbeing? And how can models of health and wellbeing that draw on mātauranga Māori help them do this? Hei whakaarotanga: Engaging with models of ...

The role the visiting lecturer plays in promoting and supporting student teacher learning on practicum is an important one in initial teacher education (ITE). The practicum experience is a challenging ...

For the reo Māori version of this report, click here. This report analyses equity, as viewed through the lens of Te Kura Māori o Ngā Tapuwae (hereafter “Ngā Tapuwae”), a kura mana motuhake. According ...

This year, the Ministry of Education expects schools to include five common components in reporting to parents and whānau. These are: Progress Descriptors for reading, writing and maths a visual ...

What happens when people become critically aware of our local Māori and colonial histories? How does this awareness impact on our own sense of self, and connection to place? How might this awareness ...

NZCER has completed work on interim mapping tables that support the interpretation of PAT Pānui | Reading Comprehension and PAT Pāngarau | Mathematics results in relation to the Ministry of ...

The following is excerpted from my recent presentation at the NASDAP Conference. Ua ta‘u mai e Pālagi i a i tatou, o le lalolagi e faū i atoma, ae tatou Sāmoa e lē valelea-matou [tagata-Sāmoa] e te ...

School attendance is a high-profile issue in the public eye this year, with a key government target being 80% of students attending school more than 90% of the time, and new proposed requirements for ...

Lifting student attendance, as well as understanding the drivers for non-attendance through data, are government priorities for improving student achievement. In April 2024, a new attendance action ...

The national curriculum has been in a substantial period of transition since the 2019 Uiuinga ā-motu, National Survey of Schools. These transitions, which were still in progress at the time of the ...