The New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) is pleased to announce the launch of PAT Tuhituhi Te Pihinga – a ...

How can schools and organisations in Aotearoa measure wellbeing? And how can models of health and wellbeing that draw on mātauranga Māori help them do this? Hei whakaarotanga: Engaging with models of ...

For the reo Māori version of this report, click here. This report analyses equity, as viewed through the lens of Te Kura Māori o Ngā Tapuwae (hereafter “Ngā Tapuwae”), a kura mana motuhake. According ...

This year, the Ministry of Education expects schools to include five common components in reporting to parents and whānau. These are: Progress Descriptors for reading, writing and maths a visual ...

Supporting vulnerable students, having too much asked of their school and recruiting quality teachers are among the biggest issues facing secondary schools in Aotearoa, new NZCER research has found.

The following is excerpted from my recent presentation at the NASDAP Conference. Ua ta‘u mai e Pālagi i a i tatou, o le lalolagi e faū i atoma, ae tatou Sāmoa e lē valelea-matou [tagata-Sāmoa] e te ...

NZCER has completed work on interim mapping tables that support the interpretation of PAT Pānui | Reading Comprehension and PAT Pāngarau | Mathematics results in relation to the Ministry of ...

The national curriculum has been in a substantial period of transition since the 2019 Uiuinga ā-motu, National Survey of Schools. These transitions, which were still in progress at the time of the ...

The latest report from New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) provides a fresh perspective of literacy in early childhood, suggesting a wider, more inclusive view of the subject.

Whānau reports are designed to be simple summaries of how an ākonga has done in a PAT, including national averages and the margin of error. As with all PAT ...

School attendance is a high-profile issue in the public eye this year, with a key government target being 80% of students attending school more than 90% of the time, and new proposed requirements for ...

As of June 1, NZCER is using updated national reference information to report stanines and generate boxplots for PAT Pānui | Reading Comprehension results. This will include updated data from Term 1, ...