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

We found that reporting to parents and whānau acts as a key mediator between school culture and schools’ support systems. While assessment and reporting practices are interrelated and both shaped by ...

NZCER has updated the item calibrations used to calculate scale scores for PAT Pānui | Reading Comprehension on the NZCER ...

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This article responds to increasing school and cross-sector interest surrounding culturally responsive pedagogy and the multiple ways that it is being discussed and understood. We try to bring clarity ...

Euro-Western schooling systems often sideline play, or when learning through play is valued, it is rarely recognised as a Maaori way of knowing. In te ao Maaori, however, play is woven through ...

With changes underway for School Board priorities and requirements, we thought it might be useful to revisit one of our research reports from earlier in the year, School Board leadership—Key issues ...

This is some of the most important information from the Term 4 Assessment News, our once-per-term pānui about all things assessment. To stay up to date with it as it is released, click here to ...

With change on the horizon for school assessment, it is worth pausing to take stock of the current landscape. The government’s move toward requiring schools to use standardised tests twice a year, ...

Lifting student attendance, as well as understanding the drivers for non-attendance through data, are government priorities for improving student achievement. In April 2024, a new attendance action ...

A huge thank you to everyone who attended our recent PAT Tuhituhi | PAT Writing webinars, especially those who submitted such an excellent range of questions. We hope that they were answered to your ...

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 ...