Literacy, language and numeracy: connecting research to practice in the tertiary sector Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2010 Around 40% of adults in Aotearoa, New Zealand have literacy and numeracy skills below a level needed to use and understand the increasingly difficult texts and…
National Standards, moderation challenges and teacher learning Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2010 Moderation of student work can support teachers to reach a shared understanding of the meaning of a standard, and to more reliably judge a range of…
Taking a "future focus" in education—what does it mean? Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2010 This working paper describes some of the ideas underpinning NZCER’s Future-Focused Issues (FFI) project. There is a variety of ways to interpret what it means to…
Primary science education for the 21st century: How, what, why? Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2010 This paper grew out of work NZCER’s science education team did for the Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. That work, entitled Inspired by Science, was published as…
Moderation and Teacher Learning: What can research tell us about their interrelationships? Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2010 This report investigates opportunities for professional learning when teachers work together to moderate their judgements of students’ work. It draws together key themes from previous research…
NEMP Writing, Reading and Mathematics Report 2010 Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2010 In 2010 the National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP) examined what a nationally representative sample of New Zealand students in year 4 and year 8 know and…
How can tertiary education deliver better value to the economy? Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010 This paper asks how tertiary education can deliver better value to the economy. It is based on a presentation given at the New Zealand conference of…
NZCER 2010 Primary & Intermediate Schools National Survey Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010 This survey was conducted in schools in July 2010 in a random sample of 350 schools. It includes the views of principals, teachers, boards of trustees…
Scoping support for New Zealand Sign Language users accessing the Curriculum Part I: An international literature review Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010 This literature review has focused on the needs of those deaf children for whom visual communication through a Sign Language is beneficial for their educational development.…
Scoping support for New Zealand Sign Language users accessing the curriculum Part II: A New Zealand Overview Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010 Language instruction to children with hearing loss requires the highest level of competency at the earliest age levels in order to optimize neural plasticity providing the…
