The New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) is pleased to announce the launch of PAT Tuhituhi Te Pihinga – a ...

This first report from the 2025 National Survey of Secondary Schools provides a snapshot of secondary principals' ...

Supporting vulnerable students, having too much asked of their school and recruiting quality teachers are among the biggest issues facing secondary schools in Aotearoa, new NZCER research has found.

Sally Boyd is a Kairangahau Matua | Senior Researcher at NZCER, with over 20 years of experience in leading qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method research and evaluation studies that span the ...

What happens when people become critically aware of our local Māori and colonial histories? How does this awareness impact on our own sense of self, and connection to place? How might this awareness ...

NZCER has completed work on interim mapping tables that support the interpretation of PAT Pānui | Reading Comprehension and PAT Pāngarau | Mathematics results in relation to the Ministry of ...

The following is excerpted from my recent presentation at the NASDAP Conference. Ua ta‘u mai e Pālagi i a i tatou, o le lalolagi e faū i atoma, ae tatou Sāmoa e lē valelea-matou [tagata-Sāmoa] e te ...

This year, the Ministry of Education expects schools to include five common components in reporting to parents and whānau. These are: Progress Descriptors for reading, writing and maths a visual ...

Lifting student attendance, as well as understanding the drivers for non-attendance through data, are government priorities for improving student achievement. In April 2024, a new attendance action ...

With assessment high on the agenda for many schools, we have seen a strong takeup of the Progressive Achievement Tests (PATs) so far this term. But how can you make sure you're getting the most out of ...

The latest report from New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) provides a fresh perspective of literacy in early childhood, suggesting a wider, more inclusive view of the subject.

School attendance is a high-profile issue in the public eye this year, with a key government target being 80% of students attending school more than 90% of the time, and new proposed requirements for ...