The Wellbeing@School toolkit is an incredibly useful resource for schools considering their attendance, students’ sense of ...

Rational number is one of the most challenging areas of primary school mathematics. When taking it on, learners are asked to move beyond whole number thinking and make sense of multiplicative and ...

PATs remain a locally designed, evidence-based assessment option for schools in 2026, and we recommend using them in Term 1 where possible. We are developing alignment between PAT scores and the ...

Relationships lie at the heart of early childhood education principles, curriculum, and pedagogy. Building strong relationships is taken for granted as a capacity all teachers possess; yet this might ...

Issue 1 2025 offers a practical compendium to commence the journal’s year for Set: Research Information for Teachers. Each article provides a clear framework for teaching its specific topic with real ...

The purpose of this research project is to improve understanding of the key elements of successful home–school partnerships, and how these partnerships operate in different school settings. The ...

“Rosemary Hipkins does not promise simple or easy answers; rather, she offers something far more valuable: a way of thinking ...

NZCER has updated the item calibrations used to calculate scale scores for PAT Pānui | Reading Comprehension on the NZCER Assist platform, which may mean changes to 2025 scores in an early Term 1 ...

"E kore au e ngaro; he kâkano i ruiruia mai i Rangiâtea." I will never be lost; the seed was sown in Rangiâtea. This traditional Mâori proverb emphasises that the speaker knows his or her whakapapa ...

Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga has contracted Rangahau Mātauranga o Aotearoa (NZCER) to establish Te Tīrewa Mātai—a new kaupapa Māori study developed with Māori, in partnership with NZCER and the Ministry.

The findings of a recent Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) project. Researchers used a collaborative whakawhānaungatanga approach to explore how early childhood educators in settings ...

Curriculum integration is much misunderstood. As a curriculum design and a pedagogy, it requires a commitment to power sharing when making curriculum decisions with students. When teachers negotiate ...