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PAT Pāngarau | PAT Mathematics is a standardised maths assessment for Years 3-10, available for all schools to use through NZCER Assist and for purchase in paper format.
This assessment has been recently refreshed with an explicit equity focus, ensuring all ākonga are represented in the design and content. The refresh includes new tests suitable for ākonga from Year 3 to the end of Year 10, however tests may be appropriate for ākonga outside this range depending on their progress. PAT Pāngarau also has updates to measurement scales, scores, and national reference information from Year 4 onwards.
About PAT Pāngarau | PAT Mathematics
PAT Pāngarau helps teachers understand ākonga knowledge, skills and understanding of mathematics in the New Zealand curriculum and targets the big ideas ākonga need to understand in order to make progress.
Assessments are designed for ākonga from Year 3 up to the end of Year 10 - but may be appropriate for ākonga outside this range depending on their progress.
PAT Pāngarau | PAT Mathematics assesses:
- Number
- Algebra
- Measurement
- Geometry
- Statistics
- Probability
This assessment has been designed with an explicit equity focus, ensuring that the languages, cultures and identities of ākonga are better represented in the assessment material, while maintaing our revidence-based assessment design and reporting.
Features of PAT Pāngarau | PAT Mathematics
- Item reporting available through NZCER Assist.
- Whānau reporting
- Improved accessibility with audio support
- Appopriate for Years 3-10
- Incorporates all Supplementary Assessments (2A, 3A, 4A, 5A, 7A and 8A)
- Diagnostic reports allow for formative as well as summative reporting
- Scale scores enable ākonga achievement levels to be tracked from year to year
- Diagnostic reports are provided in the teacher manual
- The assessments can be used at any time between February and November each year
- Assessments can be used at two or more year levels
- The assessments can be administered online or as reusable booklets with separate answer sheets
- Regularly updated norms
Benefits of PAT Pāngarau | PAT Mathematics
- Refreshed content and design allows more diverse ākonga to see themselves reflected in the assessments.
- Multiple assessments allow progress to be tracked over time. Teachers can choose the assessment that best suits ākonga needs.
- Ākonga results end up on the same scale no matter which assessment they sit. This allows for accurate school-wide and/or kāhui ako-wide reporting for strategic goal setting and planning.
- Kāhui ako/multi-school analysis reporting for trends, patterns and shifts using ethnicity, gender and year level filters for targeted improvement in teaching and learning.
- Incorporation of Supplementary Tests (more detail below) provides further options about how, who, when and why you assess.
If you would like to know more about PAT Pāngarau | PAT Mathematics, please contact our Assessment Services team.
PAT: Mathematics Adaptive
PAT: Mathematics Adaptive assessment is available for PAT Pāngarau | PAT Mathematics. It is the first truly computer adaptive assessment for schools in New Zealand.
This continuously adapts the assessment to give ākonga questions that best fit their overall level of achievement. They are given an initial question and if they get it right they’re given a harder one, or if they get it wrong they’re given an easier one.
It is not helpful from a learning point of view to always get everything right in a assessment. But getting everything wrong is equally unhelpful. Adaptive technology means everyone gets the assessment that is right for them.
Our PAT: Mathematics Adaptive assessment also benefits from the refreshed content. The adaptive assessment includes our refreshed itemsfrom 2023 (Tests 1-8), existing online only items (interactive), and many items from our supplementary tests.
You can read more about computer adaptive testing for PAT Pāngarau here.
We are also introducing item reporting for PAT Pāngarau - below is our introductory video to the system.
How to access PAT Pāngarau | PAT Mathematics
Online assessments
Schools must sign up and log in to our NZCER Assist platform to access online PAT assessments. If you have not used NZCER Assist before, you can begin by contacting our Assessment Services team and they will help you get set up.
Schools subscribe on NZCER Assist then choose their subjects, then can purchase individual assessments for each ākonga.
NZCER Assist also gives schools our comprehensive diagnostic reporting and ongoing support from our Assessment Services team.
Paper assessments
Assessments can only be purchased by schools or parents/caregivers of homeschooled children with a current exemption certificate.
If you can't shop for assessments online, you can download the order forms below and email to sales@nzcer.org.nz
Please note that paper tests for PAT Pāngarau must still be marked through NZCER Assist, requiring an account.
Support for PAT Pāngarau | PAT Mathematics
Schools can get the most out of this assessment by registering for one of our workshops or contacting our Education Advisors for bespoke support on PAT implementation and reporting.
For more support, contact our team at assessmentservices@nzcer.org.nz or check out our solutions and knowledge centre.