From a one-roomed school in the remote Far North of New Zealand, Elwyn Richardson became a radical and internationally-renowned teacher. This is his story and it is as inspirational and timely for ...

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

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

How can schools and organisations in Aotearoa measure wellbeing? And how can models of health and wellbeing that draw on mātauranga Māori help them do this? Hei whakaarotanga: Engaging with models of ...

Evaluation Matters—He Take Tō Te Aromatawai is an online, international, interdisciplinary journal published annually by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER), in conjunction with ...

Janine Simpson is NZCER's Kaituki Ratonga Aromatawai | Team Lead Assessment Services. She has worked in primary education as a classroom teacher, school leader, and mathematics facilitator. Learning ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This report was produced by NZCER for the COVID-19 Lessons Learned Royal Commission | Te Tira Ārai Urutā. It provides an evidence-based view of whether COVID-19–related school disruptions have ...

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 ...