PAT Writing is here, and we'd like you to take part! NZCER is looking for schools to test the PAT Tuhituhi Year 3 and 4 assessment with th ...

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 ...

A child described his time during the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquakes as “sailing on a river of emotions.” In Carol Mutch’s latest book, she weaves her many years of research expertise with the ...

Wairua (spirit) is threaded through the cultural beliefs, practices, and values of Māori, the indigenous peoples of New Zealand. It is an inherent part of the daily life and cultural vitality that is ...

The significance of experiences in nature for children's learning and development has been expounded by philosophers and educationalists for centuries. In many contemporary early childhood education ...

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 ...

Ike provides application support for NZCER's digital tools used in educational research across primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. He brings experience in IT service management and workflow ...

Sagar Vijayan is a systems and project accountant at NZCER, originally from southern India. He has been living in New Zealand for 16 years, having moved to pursue a master's degree in accounting at ...

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 ...

As schools gear up for Term 1, assessment will be at the forefront of many teachers' minds. NZCER offers many options for assessing literacy and mathematics, from our suite of Progressive Achievement ...