Longitudinal projects

The latest report from the NZCER national survey series looks at how the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) is being implemented in the country's primary and intermediate schools. The primary school curriculum: Assimilation, adaptation, transformation draws on data from our 2010 survey to explore differences across the sector in terms of progress on curriclum implementation, three years on from the publication of the NZC in 2007. Issues covered in the report include: how confident principals and teachers are with the curriculum, which aspects they view as most important, the professional learning teachers are doing and the challenges of creating a curriculum to meet the learning needs of all students.

This research report is based on interviews with 29 of the 401 young people in the larger Competent Learners @ 20 report. That study
found that many young people have a relatively smooth transition from school to tertiary education. This report focuses on those who experienced a more problematic transition. Some of the students had left school early, while other had experienced unemployment or had become mothers.