Each PAT is designed to assess an important capability, such as reading comprehension, that develops over time and across the ...

Psychological Test Services (PTS) supplies a wide range of psychometric tests for professional use in education, clinical psychology and human resources. We offer psychological tests from respected ...

NZCER is excited to introduce new item reporting for the Progressive Achievement Tests (PATs), our standardised assessments for years 3-11. This is a type of reporting in our NZCER Assist platform, ...

Te Whāriki promotes the use of te reo rangatira in English-medium early childhood education (ECE) settings. There is a growing body of work concerning the use of pukapuka pikitia (picturebooks) to ...

This is the first in a series of interviews with researchers whose work has made a difference in the area of early years education. Sarah Boyd interviews University of Waikato Emeritus Professor Jane ...

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 ...

Once we’ve shaped an inquiry into our own teaching, should we share our question with the students in the class? There are many reasons why teachers might hesitate to share their inquiry questions ...

Joint attention, where an adult and child share attention to some action, object, or topic, is the basis of communication and learning. Good quality childcare centres help ensure that children do ...

•&&Relationships and interactions between teachers and students in the classroom are key to effective teaching of Māori students. •&&Effective teachers take a positive, nondeficit view of Māori ...

This report documents views and experiences of NCEA from NZCER's 2012 National Survey of Secondary Schools. Responses from teachers (1266) and principals (177) predominate, but the report also ...