The climate strikes of 2019, an extraordinary worldwide phenomenon, swiftly and succinctly showed the world the collective concern of youth. What insights might curriculum planning for climate-change ...

Education for the environment is invariably considered to be the fundamental element in education "in, about, and for" the environment. However, research from New Zealand and elsewhere suggests that ...

The term developmental evaluation was coined by Michael Quinn Patton in the mid-1990s to describe the role of evaluators in the development of an innovative initiative. Core evaluation skills, such as ...

Student-centred curriculum integration is inclusive and future focused, enabling students to develop the competencies, values, knowledge, skills, and understandings espoused in The New Zealand ...

The overlaps between the requirements of good research and good practice provide both a foundation and a rationale for the development of teachers as researchers. Viviane Robinson examines some of the ...

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 ...

This article clarifies the confusion between constructivism as a learning theory and the process of constructing knowledge.

NZCER research projects are initiatives that encompass multiple outputs over a longer period of time. This may include our own Te Pae Tawhiti or Te Wāhanga research, as well as multi-year projects on ...

In this article, we discuss findings from a study of how 22 teachers in kindergartens and education and care centres in Aotearoa New Zealand spent their time at work. The teachers filled in time-use ...

Here you will find our Pūrongo ā-tau (Annual Reports), Te Rautaki a Rangahau Mātauranga o Aotearoa 2021–2025 (the NZCER Strategy), as well as our recent Briefing to the Incoming Minister of Education.

Digital citizenship education (DCE) is a concept that looks to develop learners as competent, critical, and active participants in digitally connected societies. The New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) ...

This summary of an extensive literature review highlights the different ways in which peers influence learning, and describes classroom approaches that maximise these peer effects. Learning is ...