This report documents views and experiences of NCEA from NZCER's 2012 National Survey of Secondary Schools. Responses from teachers (1266) and principals (177) predominate, but the report also reflects the responses from parents (1477) and trustees (289). Full details of the sample are in the overview report, Secondary schools in 2012.

This report shows support for NCEA has remained high among principals and consolidated among teachers, school trustees and parents ...

This article is drawn from the Teachers of Promise research which has followed a group of promising teachers, now in their ninth year of teaching. It discusses how school leadership shapes the working environment for teachers.

The article was published in Education Review, NZ Teacher series in February 2012. You can read it here.

Hei Ara Ako ki te Oranga draws on many existing frameworks and writings, and in particular the work of Professor Sir Mason Durie. A series of small group interviews with learners and tutors provided initial data, and the model was refined through wānanga with Māori academics and Māori literacy providers.

The project team developed a draft conceptual model which was piloted by Māori literacy providers. The providers helped refine the ...

Schools and Inequality is a chapter in the book Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis by M. Rashbrooke (Ed).

About the book:

The divide between New Zealand’s poorest and wealthiest inhabitants has widened alarmingly over recent decades. Differences in income have grown faster than in most other developed countries.

New Zealand society is being reshaped, stretching to accommodate new distance between those who ‘have’ and those who ‘have not’. Income inequality is ...

This guide Taking Charge of Your Apprenticeship, which is being used by BCITO apprentices but can be adapted for other ITOs under the Creative Commons Licence as long as you credit the author/s and license your new creations under identical terms. 

Transforming Industry-Led Assessment of On-Job Learning is a collaborative project between the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) and the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation (BCITO). The ...

This report discusses findings from the Transforming Industry-Led Assessment of On-Job Learning project. The project has been a collaboration between the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) and the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation (BCITO), funded by Ako Aotearoa. The project’s aim was to shed more light on systems of on-job assessment generally by focusing on one ITO specifically—the BCITO—and its improvements in organisational capability in order to ...

This report contains the main findings from NZCER's 2012 national survey of secondary schools. The survey draws on responses from more than half the country’s secondary school principals and from hundreds of teachers, parents and members of boards of trustees and was carried out in July and August 2012.

It is part of a national survey series conducted by NZCER since 1989 to track issues and trends across the education ...

Lots of time and effort goes into Occupational Health and Safety training, but which approaches really work?

This article outlines principles for successful workplace learning programmes and how these ideas can be adapted for different workplaces.

It originally appeared in the January/February edition of Safeguard magazine.

School science, the ‘smart’ economy, ‘networked’ science and ‘wicked’ problems: Is there a connection? Should there be? In this article, in keeping with the theme of this issue of NZ Science Teacher, I look at one of the four pressure areas I listed: changes to the work of being a scientist (and to the world of work generally). Via a quick survey of some big trends in the world beyond ...

This report presents the findings of a kaupapa Māori research project that identifies diverse whānau aspirations in Māori education. We asked a variety of whānau the question: What sorts of educational research would be of benefit to your children and whānau in education? The whānau responses to this question have resulted in refining a Māori-led and whānauinformed research agenda for Te Wāhanga, the kaupapa Māori research team within the New ...