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How PATs relate to the new curriculum
Each PAT is designed to assess an important capability, such as reading comprehension, that develops over time and across the ...
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Item reporting for Progressive Achievement Tests now available
NZCER is excited to introduce new item reporting for the Progressive Achievement Tests (PATs), our standardised assessments ...
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Te Puna Pukapuka Pikitia: Picturebooks as a medium for supporting development of te reo rangatira with kindergarten whānau
Te Whāriki promotes the use of te reo rangatira in English-medium early childhood education (ECE) settings. There is a growing body of work concerning the use of pukapuka pikitia (picturebooks) to ...
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The co-opting of hauora into curricula
Currently, the Mäori word hauora is translated in New Zealand curricula as health and wellbeing or as health and physical education for Mäori-medium education. "Hauora, wellbeing" is also an ...
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Teaching as inquiry and the Hawthorne effect
Once we’ve shaped an inquiry into our own teaching, should we share our question with the students in the class? There are many reasons why teachers might hesitate to share their inquiry questions ...
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set 1986: no. 1
The young people who are the subject of the National Child Development Study are now aged 25. For most of their lives they have been monitored by the National Children's Bureau and described in 19 ...
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set 2012: no. 1
The focus section of this issue of set is a collection of articles that discuss various aspects of key competency development in the early primary school years. These articles were selected from a ...
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Examining the teacher’s role in play-based learning: One teacher’s perspective
Teachers have an important role to play in supporting and facilitating play-based learning for their students. This study aimed to explore one teacher’s understanding about her own intentionality ...
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Curriculum for the Future
What is Curriculum for the Future? Curriculum for the Future is a set of three resources designed to stimulate open-ended conversations about learning and curriculum today and into the future. The ...
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Learning during lockdown
The national COVID-19 lockdown during school Term 1 and continuing in Term 2 2020, provided a unique context to investigate children’s experiences of informal, everyday learning in their household ...
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STAR reading test
The STAR reading tests are standardised assessment tools, designed to supplement the assessments that teachers make about their students' progress and achievement in reading. Each test assesses a ...