The Wellbeing@School toolkit is an incredibly useful resource for schools considering their attendance, students’ sense of ...

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 ...

This article reports on a study of primary-aged students' perceptions of what makes a good teacher for them. In 2012, as a result of a government directive, the three schools in this study merged into ...

This article explores how schools and educators can create learning environments that foster the innate mana of students. Mana is a concept that comes from a Māori worldview and refers to a person’s ...

Issue 1 2025 offers a practical compendium to commence the journal’s year for Set: Research Information for Teachers. Each article provides a clear framework for teaching its specific topic with real ...

“Rosemary Hipkins does not promise simple or easy answers; rather, she offers something far more valuable: a way of thinking ...

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 ...

With changes underway for School Board priorities and requirements, we thought it might be useful to revisit one of our research reports from earlier in the year, School Board leadership—Key issues ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...