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Moderation and Teacher Learning: What can research tell us about their interrelationships?

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…

Literacy, language and numeracy: connecting research to practice in the tertiary sector

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…

Primary science education for the 21st century: How, what, why?

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…

National Standards, moderation challenges and teacher learning

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…

Parent and caregivers perceptions and attitudes towards children's physical activity and physical education: Results of a NZ primary schools physical activity project

A pilot physical activity project was trialled in 15 primary schools in Christchurch and Auckland, New Zealand, with the aim to increase the quality and quantity…

NEMP Writing, Reading and Mathematics Report 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…

NZCER 2010 Primary & Intermediate Schools National Survey

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 II: A New Zealand Overview

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…

Scoping support for New Zealand Sign Language users accessing the Curriculum Part I: An international literature review

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.…

How can tertiary education deliver better value to the economy?

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…