In 2024, NZCER was engaged by NZQA to evaluate the NCEA me te Whānau and NCEA ma le Pasifika workshops.

These workshops aim to empower whānau Māori and Pacific families by providing them with the knowledge and confidence needed to support their young people’s education.

He kitenga | Findings

The workshops positively impacted whānau, Pacific families, and schools. 

We rated the workshop impact as Panekiretanga–Strong based on several key factors ...

This rapid review was commissioned to assist the New Zealand Drug Foundation (NZDF) to develop youth gambling resources and forms of support for Tūturu. The focus topic is “school-based approaches to youth gambling”. The review explores the following six questions: 

What is problem gambling, how does it develop over a lifespan, and what do we know about problem gambling and Aotearoa New Zealand youth? 

• What can we learn from ...

NZCER was contracted by Te Ara Ahunga Ora to evaluate Sorted PPPH in its first 3 years. This evaluation report presents findings from the third year of the programme, from July 2023 to June 2024.

About the programme 

Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission received funding from the Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP) to build the financial capability for 1,200 Pacific households, with a focus on pathways to home ownership ...

This report summarises feedback on the draft English learning area content for Years 0–6, released in August 2024. Feedback was gathered from 26 August to 20 September 2024. 

A Ministry of Education online survey was the main method for collecting feedback. The survey was accessible alongside the draft content on the Ministry of Education website, Tāhūrangi, and was promoted through Ministry of Education channels. The resulting survey sample was self-selected ...

This report summarises feedback on the draft mathematics and statistics learning area content for Years 0–8, released in August 2024. Feedback was gathered from 12 August to 9 September 2024. 

A Ministry of Education online survey was the main method for collecting feedback. The survey was accessible alongside the draft content on Tāhūrangi and was promoted through Ministry of Education channels. The resulting survey sample was self-selected. To facilitate professional ...

This is the fifth annual report that NZCER has prepared for the Sorted in Schools, Te whai hua–kia ora programme, a financial literacy programme for secondary school students, led by Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission.

In 2024, our focus is to explore how Sorted in Schools is used and valued in English-medium educational settings. We used a survey to collect data about key programme goals, and reporting on the ...

Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission (Te Ara Ahunga Ora) contracted Te Wāhanga, Rangahau Mātauranga o Aotearoa | New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) to conduct a kaupapa Māori evaluation of the Sorted Kāinga Ora programme from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024. 

The evaluation began with a scoping phase. NZCER held a workshop (23 August 2023), with Te Ara Ahunga Ora and the Sorted Kāinga Ora delivery ...

Climate change presents escalating risks to young people and communities, including risks to the achievement of educational outcomes.  

In the years NZCER has been researching climate-responsive education, we have noted a steady increase in activity, interest, and concern about climate change amongst educational policymakers, school leaders, and educators in Aotearoa New Zealand. We have also noted scattered references to education, schools, and young people in New Zealand climate action ...

Decolonising our approaches to educational research— Learning from our shared experiences at Rangahau Mātauranga o Aotearoa (NZCER) shares insights from a recent workshop at NZCER focused on the questions, tensions and challenges our kairangahau are grappling with in research and evaluation. 

It includes a description of the workshop structure and processes, and summaries of workshop presentations given by kairangahau. Our work in decolonising our approaches to educational research is constantly ...

“In the end, decolonization simply means having faith that we can still be brave enough to change an imposed reality”—Moana Jackson (2018, p. 2) 

This paper explores the origins of the term “decolonisation” and its various definitions within the literature. It also gives some examples of contemporary usage. In this paper we privilege the work of Māori and Indigenous writers who have paved the way for the ongoing work ...