Health and Physical Education Publications
Health and physical education is one of the eight learning areas in the New Zealand Curriculum. The NMSSA assessed all learning areas over a five year cycle.
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NMSSA 2022 Insights for Teachers: Health and Physical Education - Wellbeing
Around 1800 students at both year levels participated in the 2022 study of achievement in health and physical education. The study gathered assessment information using three data gathering approaches including one-to one interviews with a teacher assessor; group administered written…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Report for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: September 2023
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NMSSA 2022: Hidden Messages – Critical thinking in media contexts
In 2022, NMSSA explored students’ critical thinking strategies in a range of contexts, including analysis of advertising texts presented on media platforms. About 1800 students participated in two of these tasks reported here…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Report for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: September 2023
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NMSSA 2022: Keeping Safe on Social Media – Year 8 students’ strategies
In 2022, NMSSA explored Year 8 students’ use of social media including strategies for keeping safe. Around 500 students participated in this task. This report describes what we did and what we found out.…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Report for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: September 2023
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NMSSA Health and Physical Education Contextual Findings 2022
In 2022, the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) assessed achievement in the health and physical education (health and PE) learning area of the New Zealand Curriculum. At the same time, NMSSA administered questionnaires to gather the perspectives of…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Report for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: August 2023
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NMSSA Health and Physical Education Achievement Findings 2022
In 2022, NMSSA assessed achievement in health and physical education (HPE) at Year 4 and 8. About 1800 students from 100 English-medium state and state-integrated schools were involved at each year level. NMSSA has previously assessed HPE in 2013 and…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Report for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: July 2023
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NMSSA 2017 Insights for Teachers: Health and Physical Education
This report is designed to support health and physical education (HPE) teaching in primary classrooms. It describes student responses to a selection of tasks from assessment of the HPE learning area carried out by the National Monitoring Study of Student…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Report for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: May 2019
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NMSSA 2017: Health & Physical Education - Key Findings
In 2017 the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) study focused on the learning area of health and physical education. NMSSA assessed the subjects of health education and physical education. For the purposes of this report, the learning area…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit, University of Otago and New Zealand Council for Educational Research for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: December 2018
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NMSSA 2017: Technical Information
In 2017 the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) study focused on the learning areas of science and health and physical education. This report provides technical information for science and health and physical education.…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit, University of Otago and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: December 2018
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NMSSA 2013: Health and Physical Education
In 2013 the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) assessed student achievement in two learning areas of the NZC – health and physical education, and mathematics and statistics. This report focuses on health and physical education. Physical Education is…
Author(s): Education Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: May 2015
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