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These scales are designed to obtain teacher estimates of a student's characteristics in the areas of learning, motivation, creativity, and leadership. The items are derived from the research...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
ISBN: 978-0-947509-27-9
This is a ground-breaking account of one of the most complicated qualification systems in the world. The National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) is...
| Year published: 2016 | Publication type: Book | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Books
Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) has been used in several development studies, but few have used it for the purposes of formative assessment. This article reports from a study where the...
| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article
Meritocracy embodies tension(s) between its egalitarian and elitist strands, which in turn construct how “fairness” is construed in terms of educational opportunity and outcome. In this...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article
This article advances the argument that a priorities-based approach to assessment in early childhood education offers a middle way between inductive and deductive methods of assessment. A developing...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article
Assuming that the quality of assessment for learning (AfL) is, to some extent, bound by the context of the assessment culture it thrives in, it becomes important to understand students’...
| Year published: 2020 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article
Recognising that assessment literacy is a complex construct comprised of knowledge, skills, and dispositions, the authors sought to better understand how teacher candidates develop...
| Year published: 2020 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article
Building capability in assessment for learning is a goal of education systems internationally, though difficult for nations to successfully implement and sustain over time. Evidence about...
| Year published: 2020 | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article
The PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resource (PM Benchmarks) provides information about primary students’ level of achievement in reading accurately, fluently, and in understanding unseen texts. As...
| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This Assessment News article introduces readers to a statistical approach to making sense of student assessment data in order to help teachers understand whether or not changes in practice have made...
| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article