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“Most time I can’t understand”: Lessons from Chinese international students at risk of not achieving

This article explores the experiences of Chinese international secondary school students who were in danger of not achieving NCEA credits. Research suggests schools value the income students bring,...

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

Assessment of naturally occurring evidence of literacy

Author(s): Rosemary (Rose) Hipkins MNZM

Recent changes to New Zealand’s senior secondary school qualifications include the introduction of standards that allow students to demonstrate evidence of competency in literacy and numeracy via “...

| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Stop tinkering around the edges: A call for the deterritorialisation of assessment praxis in the age of Anthropocene predicaments

Due to anthropogenic impacts generated by colonial and neocapitalist cultures, the world is now moving on accelerating trajectories toward dystopian futures. Education, traditionally engineered as an...

| Year published: 2022 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Could the design of assessment standards be adapted to better reflect curriculum intentions?

A standards-based assessment system provides opportunities to join curriculum intentions to demonstrations of complex learning. In this article we use New Zealand’s senior secondary qualifications...