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Student voice makes a valuable contribution in the effort to evaluate the impact of Assessment for Learning (AfL) as it is the student learning that AfL practices seek to enhance. The authors report...
| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
AM2019_006.pdf | Content type: Assessment Matters article The growing diversity of students in mainstream schools in Aotearoa New Zealand is challenging for educators and policy makers alike. Educational researchers in the 21st century have shown that...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The purpose of this study is to better understand the norms, processes, and implications of a standards-based assessment (SBA) system in a project-based, STEM-focused secondary school in the United...
| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article In this edition of Assessment News education advisor Cathie Johnson encourages schools to consider how they can reflect and report on dimensions of engagement and learning that cannot be...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2015_3_058.pdf | Content type: Set article This article begins by making the case that the New Zealand curriculum component known as the Nature of Science (NOS) has generally not, thus far, achieved its stated intent of helping...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article The characteristics of performance tasks that make them appealing to students in a low-stakes environment were investigated with data from the National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP) of New...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article What supports students to develop their conceptual understanding? Taking part in focus groups helped the Years 9 and 10 Māori and Pasifika students in this study to focus on understanding the...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Assessment in schools is often concerned with generating student-achievement information in specific learning areas. However, we can use assessment techniques to collect a wider range of information...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article New Zealand’s previous examination-based secondary assessment system can be viewed as encompassing cultural values presenting unfair challenges for indigenous and other nonmajority students. The...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article This article explores what a group of Years 11 and 13 students think about history, how they talk about it and what they are interested in studying. It suggests that being aware of student interests...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article