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| Year published: 2020 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A sense of belonging and wellbeing at school influences educational and health outcomes. Here we widen the traditional focus of Assessment News to focus on the use of student wellbeing data in...
| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: Set 2019_1_054.pdf | Content type: Set article
With the upcoming review of the National Certificates of Educational Achievement (NCEA) and the removal of National Standards, it is time to reconsider how we approach assessment. In this edition of...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 2018_1_046.pdf | Content type: Set article
An assessment seminar series in the April 2018 school holidays saw the launch of the New Zealand Assessment Institute (NZAI), and growing excitement about innovative assessment practice across the...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: Set 2018_2_054.pdf | Content type: Set article
Play is very “on trend” in the primary sector, but is it a suitable pedagogy for secondary students? Based on research into play-based learning in a Year 11 English class, this article provides an...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What value do we ascribe to assessment in a climate that seems to be driven by National Standards? How do we account for individual differences in students?
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In this article, Yvonne, a junior school teacher, describes how she decided to explore how key competencies could be integrated into the daily programme, and assessed, without creating extra workload...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Test scores reduce complex phenomena, such as achievement in mathematics or ability to comprehend a written text, to numbers. If a test has done a good job of testing what it was designed to assess,...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What could we be looking for in student work when it comes to summative assessment? This article explores some of the challenges related to assessment in social studies. It then traces some of the...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Pasifika students do not generally achieve as well as other students in school assessments of literacy and there are concerns about their comprehension of text. This article examines the out-of-...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article