NZCER's expert Education Advisors are available to support schools with assessment and reporting in a number of ways - below ...

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

This study examined factors that influence and are influenced by the co-construction of pedagogical documentation by educators and children in early learning settings. Throughout a 6-month period, ...

Transitions into early childhood education in a new country can be challenging for refugee and migrant children, their families, and teachers. This article presents pilot study findings that explored ...

Currently, the Mäori word hauora is translated in New Zealand curricula as health and wellbeing or as health and physical education for Mäori-medium education. "Hauora, wellbeing" is also an ...

Euro-Western schooling systems often sideline play, or when learning through play is valued, it is rarely recognised as a Maaori way of knowing. In te ao Maaori, however, play is woven through ...

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 ...

This article explores how schools and educators can create learning environments that foster the innate mana of students. Mana is a concept that comes from a Māori worldview and refers to a person’s ...

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 ...

Understanding the number system is the key to teaching and learning mathematics. Here is a framework which shows how children's understanding about the number system becomes more sophisticated as ...

A quick thought experiment – imagine asking students to solve the problem ½ + ¼. How do they respond? How do they get to those responses? To many, this will look like a simple problem using familiar ...

The following is from our Term 1, 2026 Assessment News pānui. If you'd like to receive this pānui as it is released, you can sign up here. Welcome back to another school year! We imagine there’s ...