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Literacy teaching and learning for the 21st century: Bridging the theory to practice gap

Author(s): Sue McDowall

If literacy learning needs to change for the 21st century, when students need to deal with new formats, such as blogs, sound clips and YouTube, what does this mean in practice in the classroom? This...

| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

set2010_2_002.pdf | Content type: Set article

Kaupapa Māori action research in a Whānau Ora collective: An exemplar of Māori evaluative practice and the findings

Whānau Ora, introduced as a government initiative in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2010, was designed to support collaboration and effective service delivery by Māori non-government organisations...

| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

EM2015_1_113.pdf | Content type: Evaluation Matters article

Cultural fit: An important criterion for effective interventions and evaluation work

Cultural fit is a concept that can be applied to the effectiveness of one’s evaluation practice as well as the interventions that seek to help people. We argue that there is substantial...

| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

EM2015_1_025.pdf | Content type: Evaluation Matters article

Developing a thoughtful approach to evaluation: Values-driven guidelines for novice evaluators

Novice evaluators in Aotearoa New Zealand have few resources to assist them with reconciling the complex philosophical, theoretical, and practice tensions inherent in programme evaluation....

| Year published: 2016 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

EM2016_1_053.pdf | Content type: Evaluation Matters article

“Outside the box but kinda in the box”: Evaluating with a rural Māori community

Mount Ruapehu, locally known as Matua Te Mana, is the metaphorical ancestor of Māori living around the rural community of Raetihi. Matua Te Mana has a significant presence and is pivotal to the...

| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

EM2018_067.pdf | Content type: Evaluation Matters article

Educating Gen Z in a digital world

Keynote Address for ANZEA Conference, July 2019, Waipuna Lodge, Auckland. Frances Valintine is a “Futurist” thought-leader in emerging and disruptive technologies and has 20 years’ experience across...

| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

EM2019_006.pdf | Content type: Evaluation Matters article

Kei tua o te pae: Assessing learning that reaches beyond the self and beyond the horizon

Author(s): Margaret Carr

This paper outlines the development and the conceptual design of an assessment for learning resource of 177 exemplars from early childhood contexts. Two metaphors provide the foundation for...

| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Assessment for learning practices in Japan: Three steps forward, two steps back

The dichotomy between content knowledge and 21st-century skills (“zest for life” in the Japanese context) has been an issue since the early 2000s in Japan. Recently it has been evident in the demand...

| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Growth in assessment practices: Teacher experiences with summative assessment when working with grades 7 to 9 students using one-to-one iPads

This study examines the summative-assessment practices used for a one-to-one programme where all teachers and students in grades 7 to 9 across an entire district were provided with iPads. Data were...

| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Assessment of student teachers on practicum: Building and promoting self-regulatory practices

The role the visiting lecturer plays in promoting and supporting student teacher learning on practicum is an important one in initial teacher education (ITE). The practicum experience is a...