Rosemary Hipkins

Kaihautū Rangahau Tāoki | Emeritus Chief Researcher

Rosemary (Rose) began her working life as a science and biology teacher, followed by several years working in teacher education. Rose joined NZCER in 2001 and over the following years she led, and supported, a wide range of research projects. Most of her work has broadly related to curriculum and/or assessment innovation in New Zealand.

Projects Rose has led or co-led include: exploring the implications of decolonising our research practice; adopting a "knowledge systems" approach to bringing mātauranga Māori and science learning together; teaching for complex systems thinking; and co-editing an edition of Assessment Matters, with all papers written by members of NZARE’s Science Education Special Interest Group. She has also supported work on NZCER’s National Surveys of schools; background research to support Refreshing The New Zealand Curriculum; and background research to support equity in NCEA assessment practices.    

Rose has served on the editorial boards of several journals and particularly enjoys helping teacher-researchers shape their experiences and insights for formal publication. She supported a number of TLIF (Teacher Led Innovation Fund) projects over the years of this fund’s existence. In 2019 Rose was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science education. In 2022 she was awarded Life Membership of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE). In 2025, Rose retired from NZCER with the title Emeritus Chief Researcher.

Rose Hipkins profile
Email
rose.hipkins@nzcer.org.nz

Publications

National Standards, moderation challenges and teacher learning Research publication 2011
Learning to reinvent the school curriculum Research publication 2011
Learning to be a new school: Building a curriculum for new times Research publication 2011
Exploring connections between engagement and student voice Research publication 2011
The challenges of graph interpretation in science Journal article 2011
Students’ experiences of their first two years at Albany Senior High Research publication 2011
The Work of Accent Advisers Research publication 2011
Thinking in science—What might progress look like? Journal article 2010
Learning through moderation: Minding our language Journal article 2010
Reflections on being “labelled” by National Standards Journal article 2010
Inspired by science Research publication 2010
The Evolving NCEA Research publication 2010
Should students learn to ‘read’ science writing from the media? Research publication 2010
Reshaping the secondary school curriculum: Building the plane while flying it? Research publication 2010
More complex than skills: Rethinking the relationship between key competencies and curriculum content Research publication 2010
Public attitudes to science: rethinking outreach activities Research publication 2010
Determining meaning for key competencies via assessment practices Journal article 2009
Meaning making for democratic participation Research publication 2009
New Zealand curriculum implementation exploratory studies: Final Report Research publication 2009
Themes from the curriculum implementation case studies. Milestone report for November 2008 Research publication 2008