Online portfolios, which allow teachers, families and children to document and share children's experiences and learning, are increasingly used by New Zealand early childhood education (ECE) services.

This article argues the view that curriculum policy is an educative resource for teachers, and that this view imposes certain design considerations on policy. Foremost among these is the need to ...

Pasifika students’ cultural knowledge and practices have long had low value in New Zealand schools. It has been argued that culturally responsive teaching practice is a priority for improving the ...

The quality of early childhood education and care fundamentally depends on teachers’ wise practice. However, the environments in which that education and care occur can influence, inform, and shape ...

The findings of a recent Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) project. Researchers used a collaborative whakawhānaungatanga approach to explore how early childhood educators in settings ...

We have been receiving a number of questions this past week regarding the future of the Progressive Achievement Tests (PATs), so I'd like to take a moment to clarify our position. NZCER is the ...

Racial-ethnic identity is a fundamental aspect of an early adolescent's identity. This article, based on data from Māori adolescents in Auckland, shows that racial-ethnic identity is important for ...

A lot of emphasis is currently placed on the need for principals to be instructional leaders or leaders of learning. In the study of the instructional leadership of secondary principals reported in ...

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 ...

Progressive Achievement Tests (PATs) are standardised tests available for students in Years 3-10, and are one of the options available to schools in 2025 as they are encouraged to assess twice yearly ...