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The challenges school administrators face in building assessment literacy

This study explored elementary and secondary school administrators’ perspectives on their attempts to build assessment literacy—an understanding of the principles and practices of sound assessment....
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Responding to the pandemic: Changing the assessments in early childhood practicum placements by strengthening voice and agency

The 2020 COVID lockdown provoked the early childhood team at Manukau Institute of Technology to radically rethink how practicum was assessed. The usual approach of an “in-centre” observation followed...
| Year published: 2022 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

An investigation into online moderation

The purpose of this paper is to understand how teachers’ identities as assessors in a standards-referenced assessment system may be developed through their participation in online social moderation...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Formative assessment in practice: Helping change what’s inside the box

The implementation of best practice models for assessment begins with teachers who are working in their own classes to integrate strategies into their teaching context. The effect of best practice...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Designing bespoke professional learning and development by being purposeful and open-ended, offering space, and playing

This article draws on doctoral research into conferences for teacher professional learning and development (PLD). It outlines the literature on teacher PLD, and describes the process by which the...
| Year published: 2023 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

“I think my knowledge of intentional teaching is coming from those around me ...”: Intentional teaching and Te Whāriki

The 2017 refresh of Aotearoa New Zealand’s early childhood education (ECE) curriculum Te Whāriki was undertaken to better guide teachers in understanding their role in supporting children’s learning...
| Year published: 2023 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

Working towards wellbeing rests on whanaungatanga and partnerships

The education system is in a period of significant change. Wellbeing is an increasing priority as schools reintegrate students after COVID-19 lockdowns and climate-related disasters. A large-scale...
| Year published: 2023 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: PDF icon Set_2023_017.pdf | Content type: Set article