The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the tensions and influences on beginner teachers as they learn to make decisions about assessment in an ethical manner. It focuses on the decisions related to summative assessment, made while working in classrooms. Honig’s concept of dilemmatic space is used ...

Within all levels of the education sector there have been increasing calls for culturally relevant and affirming assessment practice. This article reports on an investigation of the assessment experiences of Cook Islands tertiary students. A qualitative approach underpinned by an interpretivist research paradigm was utilised for this study. Three key ...

Teachers have responsibility and can assume agency for enhancing the education of Pacific students in Aotearoa New Zealand. Pacific education is an area which needs improvement and, consequently, Pacific communities seek actions - deliberate strategies - to enhance educational provision. Among the strategies available is the engagement of role models ...

Building cultural inclusivity is one of the major challenges many schools and teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand face today. This case study examines how a student-led video campaign in a multicultural high school strove to cultivate a culturally inclusive community, encouraging dialogue and empowering participants while students faced challenges in ...

There is a significant lack of te reo Māori resources, especially digital materials, for learning pāngarau/mathematics. Few studies have investigated how well digital resources for pāngarau align with kaupapa Māori principles. In this article, we examine a digital resource, Matific, from a kaupapa Māori perspective. We find the te reo ...

This qualitative study explored children’s opportunities to actively solve problems as they talked, wrote and read during their first few months at school. Participants were two teachers from two schools in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland and eight children, newcomers to their classes. The children’s writing records and actions during guided writing ...

Data literacy enables teachers to use information collected about students and their learning to take data-informed instructional action.  This article outlines two approaches developed by teachers to provide teaching targeted to the immediate needs of specific students that moved beyond “gap-filling”. The pre-teaching and “fresh choice” approaches led to increased ...