This set of three PowerPoint presentations is based on findings from NZCER's 2008-2009 research on Students’ experiences of learning in virtual classrooms.

The presentations have been designed to suit different audiences and can be used to support and promote professional learning and conversations about virtual and e-learning in schools. 

The first presentation helps school leaders think about how their  schools can foster and support e-learning and virtual learning. 

The second presentation helps e-teachers ...

The Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) asked NZCER to evaluate its FutureinTech programme. Under the programme, young professional technologists, engineers and scientists (known as Ambassadors) visit schools and carry out a variety of activities, including careers talks and classroom support with lessons and projects. IPENZ employs eight regional facilitators who co-ordinate the Futureintech programme in their regions. The aim of the evaluation was to look at the impact ...

This brochure summarises key themes from a two-part project  on the contributions of learning in the arts to educational, social and economic outcomes, undertaken for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

The summary and the two reports it draws on are available here: The contributions of learning in the arts to educational, social and economic outcomes (2011)

This literature synthesis explores how arts education might support the kinds of learning required to equip young New Zealanders to contribute to New Zealand’s future prosperity (including economic, social and cultural). It addresses the following questions:

• What knowledge, skills, attitudes and values are seen as necessary for young people to be successful in New Zealand and in a global economy, and what is the theoretical and evidential basis for this ...

This review of international and New Zealand literature explores the arguments made, and evidence for, the contribution of participation and/or formal learning in arts disciplines to educational, social/cultural and economic outcomes, with a key focus on school-aged learners.

A number of international reviews and meta-analyses have sought to provide a rigorous research base for understanding the contributions of learning in the arts. This review focuses on all the arts ...

Two mini reports were part of a two-year evaluation of Phase Two of the Regional Education for Enterprise (E4E) Clusters Initiative. The initiative’s overall aim was to embed an enterprising culture within clusters of schools nationwide based on characteristics of their communities. NZCER is tracking and supporting developments in four clusters: Northland, West Coast, Nelson, and Manukau.

The two reports were designed to update the clusters on the progress made ...

This working paper draws on a small-scale study carried out with a group of teachers on foregrounding 'thnking' in science classrooms. It includes a discussion of what thinking in science actually is and explores the sort of changes that need to happen in order to realise the vision of a thinking curriculum for the 21st century.

This report analyses and discusses findings from a study of training programmes at six different workplaces, across four different industry sectors, around the country. Our research team visited each workplace, observed training sessions or training-related activities, and interviewed a range of people who were participating in the training, or leading and supporting the training programme and trainees. The research was funded by the Tertiary Education Commission and conducted by NZCER ...

Published in: Education Links (the radical education dossier), 65 (Spring: Blurred Boundaries and Educational Change), 12-17.

The purpose of this paper is to sketch a picture of young people’s experiences and thoughts about their schooling, identities, and future career opportunities. It’s basically the result of some thinking I’ve been doing as NZCER begins a new longitudinal project in transition. And transition is currently a hot topic – the government have just allocated millions to a Training and Education Package, covering a number of transition initiatives.

The ...