PATs have supported teachers for more than 50 years now, providing a consistent, evidence-based way to understand student ...

Each PAT is built from a carefully selected sample of questions that represent the key ideas and skills contributing to ...

NZCER is pleased once again to host Professor Brent Duckor and Dr Carrie Holmberg (San José State University) as they present ...

Outdoor education is often perceived as a series of activities involving novel physical challenges in remote settings or at specialist residential camps. Unfortunately, such experiences can be ...

When asked what they would change about their work, 76% of teachers indicated they would want more support staff, compared to ...

NZCER has run a National Survey of Primary Schools regularly since 1989, with the last survey of primary school teachers ...

Given Aotearoa New Zealand’s high need for anti-bullying initiatives and the advantages of a coordinated, community-wide ...

•&&Relationships and interactions between teachers and students in the classroom are key to effective teaching of Māori students. •&&Effective teachers take a positive, nondeficit view of Māori ...

Jacoba Matapo, Associate Dean Pasifika in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, opens this discussion by introducing herself by way of her pepha; which she says is integral ...

Global issues, such as ecological sustainability, can be difficult topics to address in early childhood education. This article reports on a research project exploring an approach based on the idea of ...

Science education has an important role to play in supporting our young people to meet the complex challenges of the modern age. Students need a curriculum that can prepare them to work ...

New curriculum content for teaching Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories (ANZH) and Te Takanga o te Wā (TToTW) was gazetted in 2022, for schools and kura to begin using in 2023. The release of this ...