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Website: New Zealand Council for Educational Research
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2012
Travellers is an early intervention programme run by Skylight for students (generally in Year 9) in New Zealand secondary schools.In order to build on existing studies…
This report is one of a series written for the Ministry of Education as part of the Curriculum support for science strand of the Science in…
Last Publication Date: 1 Sep 2011
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…
Last Publication Date: 1 Mar 2011
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…
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…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2011
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
