Each PAT is designed to assess an important capability, such as reading comprehension, that develops over time and across the ...

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 ...

This is the first in a series of interviews with researchers whose work has made a difference in the area of early years education. Sarah Boyd interviews University of Waikato Emeritus Professor Jane ...

Psychological Test Services (PTS) supplies a wide range of psychometric tests for professional use in education, clinical psychology and human resources. We offer psychological tests from respected ...

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 ...

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 ...

NZCER is excited to introduce new item reporting for the Progressive Achievement Tests (PATs), our standardised assessments for years 3-11. This is a type of reporting in our NZCER Assist platform, ...

All workers in New Zealand can expect to have their rights to health implemented in their workplaces. For early childhood teachers, health risks extend to the children they care for, as well as their ...

Views the recent revision of a national writing assessment tool, e-asTTle : Writing (2012), from theoretical, design and implementation, and practice perspectives. Considers it in relation to the ...

This article reports on the first phase of an investigation into the effective transitioning of secondary students to tertiary education through a focus on academic literacy. Action research was used ...