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To what extent do individual superannuation schemes in New Zealand address needs for retirement income in a gender-neutral manner?

Women’s financial wellbeing and net worth in retirement are influenced by a variety of contextual factors and by decisions women make during their life cycle. New…

Competent Children, Competent Learners

The Competent Children, Competent Learners project is a longitudinal study undertaken by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) which focuses on a group of…

From "student voice" to "youth–adult partnerships": lessons from working with young people as partners for educational change

This working paper describes a series of recent “student voice” projects undertaken by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER). Although these projects varied in…

Implementation of the New Zealand Curriculum: Synthesis of Research & Evaluation

The revised New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) was launched in November 2007 (Ministry of Education, 2007), following a lengthy period of trialling and consultation, which included the…

Taking a "future focus" in education—what does it mean?

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…

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…

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…