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PAT: Study Skills Tests

NZCER's familiar Progressive Achievement Test series will shortly be extended as the Council launches its fifth set -the PAT: Study Skills Tests. Since the first PAT tests were released in...

| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

The Almost Invisible Woman

School leadership in New Zealand, both at primary and secondary levels, is dominated by men, despite the fact that women constitute half the combined teaching force.

| Year published: 1978 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Corporal Punishment

If you believe that hitting children is right and proper and probably good for them, that it stiffens the moral fibre, gives them a taste of what life is an about, and so on, then no amount of...

| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Literacy teaching and learning for the 21st century: Bridging the theory to practice gap

Author(s): Sue McDowall

If literacy learning needs to change for the 21st century, when students need to deal with new formats, such as blogs, sound clips and YouTube, what does this mean in practice in the classroom? This...

| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

set2010_2_002.pdf | Content type: Set article

Mapping Assessment for Learning (AfL) communities in schools

This article reports findings from a nationwide research project conducted in Norway to determine the impact of the national programme called Assessment for Learning (AfL, 2010–2014) on school...

| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Can culturally responsive policies improve Māori achievement?

This article analyses research literature and policy texts to investigate the extent to which culturally responsive education policies can improve Māori achievement in schools. It presents a snapshot...

| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Assessment for learning in the classroom: Barriers to implementation and possibilities for teacher professional learning

Assessment for learning (AfL) has been touted as one of the most promising pedagogical approaches for enhancing student learning. Research suggests that engaging students in AfL helps to improve...

| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Assessment that matters: The transformative potential of narrative assessment for students with special education needs

This paper suggests The New Zealand Curriculum Exemplars for Learners with Special Education Needs and the accompanying booklet, Narrative Assessment: A Guide for Teachers, can potentially transform...

| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

AM2012_4_110.pdf | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Critical issues for whānau in English-medium schools

Author(s): Alex Hotere-Barnes, Jessica Hutchings, Katrina Taupo, Nicola Bright

Whānau are integral to the educational wellbeing of Māori students in English-medium education. However, very little Māori educational research has been carried out with an explicit focus on...

| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Gifted and talented

Gifted education is an evolving kaupapa for Māori and Māori-medium settings. Māori perspectives of giftedness are not finite and static, but rather dynamic and evolving. This article tells a story...