Search results

Displaying 1 - 8 of 8

Teacher and librarian perspectives on information literacy, and the secondary-school library’s relationship to information literacy in the classroom

This article reports on the quantitative data from a 2017 survey of secondary-school teachers and librarians in Aotearoa New Zealand. Findings suggest that librarians and library services are not...

| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

What is English? Understanding how subject English is framed in The New Zealand Curriculum

Since its emergence as a distinct subject area in the nineteenth century, English has been an important, but contested, subject. Competing discourses, resulting in different models of English, have...

| Year published: 2021 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Audience and purpose: Secondary English teachers and the social vision in The New Zealand Curriculum

The New Zealand Curriculum expresses a vision for young people who are contributing and participating members of society. While this social vision is supported by the inclusion of key competencies,...

| Year published: 2021 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Building epistemic thinking through disciplinary inquiry: Contrasting lessons from history and biology

Author(s): Rosemary (Rose) Hipkins MNZM

This article explores the effect of high-stakes assessment on the representation of epistemic knowledge in the enacted curriculum—that is, the curriculum experienced by students in the classroom....

| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

CM_2017_13_080.pdf | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Working for positive outcomes? The standards–curriculum alignment for Learning Languages, and its reception by teachers

Since 2007, substantial restructuring of New Zealand’s national school curriculum has occurred. This change has been paralleled by extensive revisions to New Zealand’s high-stakes...

| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Dusky maiden—noble savage: Pasifika representation in the NCEA drama classroom

Pasifika learners. NCEA, as the nationally endorsed means of measuring achievement, exerts considerable power over what educators teach Pasifika young people is important and of intrinsic value for...

| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum 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...