Relationships lie at the heart of early childhood education principles, curriculum, and pedagogy. Building strong relationships is taken for granted as a capacity all teachers possess; yet this might ...

Issue 1 2025 offers a practical compendium to commence the journal’s year for Set: Research Information for Teachers. Each article provides a clear framework for teaching its specific topic with real ...

PATs remain a locally designed, evidence-based assessment option for schools in 2026, and we recommend using them in Term 1 where possible. We are developing alignment between PAT scores and the ...

Rational number is one of the most challenging areas of primary school mathematics. When taking it on, learners are asked to move beyond whole number thinking and make sense of multiplicative and ...

Multiple motivation factors work together to influence how students learn and achieve. Motivation can be enhanced by instruction that supports learning-related expectancies of success and strengthens ...

“Rosemary Hipkins does not promise simple or easy answers; rather, she offers something far more valuable: a way of thinking ...

Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga has contracted Rangahau Mātauranga o Aotearoa (NZCER) to establish Te Tīrewa Mātai—a new kaupapa Māori study developed with Māori, in partnership with NZCER and the Ministry.

Curriculum integration is much misunderstood. As a curriculum design and a pedagogy, it requires a commitment to power sharing when making curriculum decisions with students. When teachers negotiate ...

The idea of global citizenship or world citizenship is the idea that human beings are “citizens of the world” (Dower & Williams, 2002, p. 1). This notion of membership of a wider global, universal, or ...

NZCER has updated the item calibrations used to calculate scale scores for PAT Pānui | Reading Comprehension on the NZCER Assist platform, which may mean changes to 2025 scores in an early Term 1 ...

The findings of a recent Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) project. Researchers used a collaborative whakawhānaungatanga approach to explore how early childhood educators in settings ...

"E kore au e ngaro; he kâkano i ruiruia mai i Rangiâtea." I will never be lost; the seed was sown in Rangiâtea. This traditional Mâori proverb emphasises that the speaker knows his or her whakapapa ...