Please note: The Me and My School survey is now available (online only) on NZCER Assist. Please see below for new reporting features and updated pricing information.
If you would like to subscribe for this survey, please contact us at assessmentservices@nzcer.org.nz or log in to NZCER Assist here.
About Me and My School
How connected and committed are your students to their learning? How do you know?
Me and My School is a unique, research-based student engagement survey designed for New Zealand students Years 4 to 10. It offers a snapshot of the learning culture in your school, standardised data to track progress over time and a nationally referenced gender, ethnicity, and year level comparison.
It comes in two versions: one for students in Years 7 to 10, and a junior version for Years 4 to 6. The survey is easy to administer, completely anonymous, and asks students to report their level of agreement to a series of statements regarding affective, behavioural and cognitive aspects of engagement. It provides:
- anonymous data through whole school, class, year level, gender, and ethnic filters
- rich reporting information that tells your school’s story
- a statistical framework for tracking aspects of engagement over time
- a separate report showing student engagement with reading
The items in the survey were sourced from national and international research literature or were specially constructed by researchers to address the three different aspects of engagement.
What's new for Me and My School on NZCER Assist?
Administration
- The Me and My School online survey is now available on NZCER Assist - no need to log into a different site.
- Much easier to create and administer Junior and Senior survey token codes for online surveys.
- Surveys completed online are accessed through NZCER Online.
Reporting
- Reporting becomes available as soon as 10 or more students have completed their survey. No need to contact NZCER to generate school reporting.
- Updated item report with new filter options - now available.
- Engagement and Reading scale reports are interactive and are based on real time data.
- Updated reference data is coming soon.
Me and My School resources
Download the Me and My School information sheet
Download the Me and My School: Case study through a cultural lens
Get the most out of this assessment by registering for one of our PLD workshops.
Benefits of the Me and My School survey
- Starting point for Kāhui Ako / Community of Learning (CoL) Achievement Challenges and school cluster-wide sharing of trends and patterns through ethnic, gender and year level standardised data.
- The student engagement scale offers both position and tracking of student cohort progress over time.
- Improved knowledge of how your students behave as learners, whether they like learning and feel they are learning.
- Improved reporting features on NZCER Assist.
Cost structure
$250.00 registration fee. $2.00 per student per survey.
How to subscribe for Me and My School
As a survey delivered through our NZCER Assist platform, schools will need an account to get set up. To do this, contact us at assessmentservices@nzcer.org.nz.
You can also contact our team for further information about Me and My School, including calling us on (04) 802-1630.
NZCER’s Education Advisors, Julie Roberts and Melissa Denzler, can provide support and challenge for how to use the survey results to define or address the problem for improvement. Contact Julie and Melissa at educationadviser@nzcer.org.nz