Every 3 years NZCER surveys principals, teachers, trustees, and parents at a random sample of Englishmedium primary schools to provide a national picture of what is happening in teaching and learning. This allows comparisons and tracking of how things change over time. Here are many of the main findings from the 2019 survey. 

They show many positive things occurring in primary schools, along with gains in key areas. They also ...

Te Wāhanga, on behalf of Oranga Tamariki, produced this report on the benefits of Social Workers in Schools (SWiS) in kura kaupapa Māori and kura ā-iwi (kura), using a kaupapa Māori approach.  

The report made six recommendations for Oranga Tamariki to consider: 

1. Increase funding and resources for SWiS in kura kaupapa Māori and kura ā-iwi 
2. Make sure that all SWiS workers who go into kura have te reo Māori me ngā tikanga Māori 
3. Extend kaupapa Māori practices to English-medium schools 
4. Review Oranga Tamariki systems and ...

A report prepared for Te Mātāwai by Te Wāhanga–New Zealand Council for Educational Research l NZCER, 2020.

Te Wāhanga—NZCER was commissioned by Te Mātāwai to undertake an exploratory research project into rangatahi exposure to, and use of, te reo Māori. We used a kaupapa Māori mixed-methods research approach. The study involved 19 rangatahi, aged between 13 and 23 years, from four regions. The study took place from January 2019 ...

How does climate change and sustainability feature in primary and intermediate school classrooms and whole-school practices?

We asked teachers and principals a few questions about climate change and sustainability as part of the 2019 NZCER national survey of English-medium primary and intermediate schools.

Key findings are summarised in infographics available in the downloads section.

Findings include:

• Many principals and teachers think climate change will have moderate to major impacts in ...

2019 was the third year that the Teaching, School, and Principal Leadership Practices Survey (TSP) was available for free use by schools. The questions in this survey draw on a strong body of evidence about effective practices. The TSP asks teachers and principals to rate how often a practice occurs or how well the practice is done.

This 2019 aggregate report provides graphs of the frequencies for the items in each of the ...

Making a place in the world: Experiences of those who took less conventional paths from school is the latest report from the NZCER longitudinal study Competent Learners that has followed young New Zealanders from their final months in early childhood education to age 26. This research aimed to find out how those who leave school early or take less conventional paths from school build their adult lives and find or ...

We know that a lot of curriculum integration is happening, and that schools believe they are being innovative and future-focused when they create these units of work. This research explored teachers’ rationales for curriculum integration; the approaches and practices used to integrate curriculum; and the learning opportunities such approaches provide for students. Of specific interest is how teachers introduced disciplinary knowledge so that students got a sense of how subjects differ ...

This research was commissioned by the New Zealand Productivity Commission to inform their examination of technology and the future of work in New Zealand. The main research question asks, in essence:

In what ways are secondary school subject-choice systems, and students’ subject choices, positioned to respond to future of work trends?

The following sub-questions provide more specific direction.

• Do institutional biases in schools, including the construction and delivery of careers ...

This research was commissioned by the New Zealand Productivity Commission to inform their examination of technology and the future of work in New Zealand. The main research question asks, in essence:

In what ways are secondary school subject-choice systems, and students’ subject choices, positioned to respond to future of work trends?

The following sub-questions provide more specific direction.

• Do institutional biases in schools, including the construction and delivery of careers ...

Proceedings research article for the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) Annual Conference 2019. 

Proceedings APA: G. Hine, S. Blackley, & A. Cooke (Eds.). Mathematics Education Research: Impacting Practice (Proceedings of the 42nd annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia). Perth: MERGA.

Learning trajectories/progressions are an emerging research focus in mathematics education. A set of descriptors of early progress in mathematics was developed for students with complex needs. Developers leveraged off existing ...