Here you will find our Pūrongo ā-tau (Annual Reports), Te Rautaki a Rangahau Mātauranga o Aotearoa 2021–2025 (the NZCER Strategy), as well as our recent Briefing to the Incoming Minister of Education.

Junior Science: Thinking with Evidence Science: Thinking with Evidence STAR Reading Test Supplementary Spelling Assessments (SSpA) BURT Word Reading Test Te Urungi - te reo Māori assessment ...

Statistical investigations | Te tūhuratanga tauanga: Understanding progressions in The New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa ...

Being aware of validity and how it can be threatened can help teachers make decisions about what assessments are worth making and what they can be used for ...

In this article, we discuss findings from a study of how 22 teachers in kindergartens and education and care centres in Aotearoa New Zealand spent their time at work. The teachers filled in time-use ...

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.

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 ...

We framed our session as an opportunity to explore climate transitions. One of the challenges of climate change is that it can feel big, scary, overwhelming, and outside of our control. Talking about ...

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 ...

The national curriculum has been in a substantial period of transition since the 2019 Uiuinga ā-motu, National Survey of Schools. These transitions, which were still in progress at the time of the ...

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 ...

Update, December 18 2025: The recording of our webinar is now available to watch here. Following our recent webinar with Brent Duckor and Carrie Holmberg on AI in USA primary schools, we invite you to ...