Mathematics and Statistics Publications
Mathematics and statistics 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: Opportunities to Learn Mathematics at Year 4 and 8
The 2022 NMSSA study included an activity that involved Teacher Assessors talking with small groups of ākonga about their learning in mathematics and statistics.…
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: Our Cultures and Mathematics at Year 4 and 8
The 2022 NMSSA study included an activity that explored the connections ākonga Māori and Pacific learners made between their cultures and learning mathematics and statistics[1].…
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 Insights for Teachers Mathematics and Statistics 2022
The booklet has been written primarily for teachers. If you are a teacher, we hope the booklet will stimulate some thoughts about your mathematics programmes and help generate some ideas you can use in the classroom and share with colleagues.…
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 Mathematics and Statistics, Health and PE Technical Information 2022
This report is comprised of a set of technical appendices that supplement the suite of 2022 NMSSA Key Findings reports.…
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 Mathematics and Statistics Contextual Findings 2022
This report explores data collected about learning and teaching in mathematics as part of the 2022 National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA). The data was collected using student, teacher, and principal questionnaires.…
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 Mathematics and Statistics Achievement Findings 2022
In 2022, NMSSA assessed achievement in mathematics1 at Year 4 and 8. About 2000 students from 100 English-medium state and state-integrated schools were involved at each year level. NMSSA previously assessed mathematics in 2013 and 2018.…
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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Mathematics / Pāngarau achievement: primary schooling
Results from 2018 show that 81% of Year 4 learners were ‘at’ or ‘above’ their expected curriculum level in mathematics.…
Author(s): Ministry of Education
Date Published: September 2021
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Mathematics / Pāngarau achievement: middle schooling
Results from 2018 show that 45% of Year 8 learners were ‘at’ or ‘above’ their expected curriculum level in mathematics.…
Author(s): Ministry of Education
Date Published: September 2021
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NMSSA 2018 Insights for Teachers: Maths and Statistics
This report is designed to support the teaching of mathematics and statistics in primary and intermediate classrooms. It draws on insights generated from the assessment of the mathematics and statistics learning area carried out by the National Monitoring Study of…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit, University of Otago and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: February 2020
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NMSSA 2018: Mathematics and Statistics
This report is designed to provide a succinct overview of key findings from the 2018 mathematics study. It is supplemented by a report focused on curriculum insights for teachers, a technical report and an online interactive statistical application. All reports
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit, University of Otago and New Zealand Council for Educational Research for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: December 2019
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NMSSA 2018: Technical Information
In 2018 the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) study focused on the learning areas of mathematics and statistics and social studies. This report provides technical information for mathematics and statistics and social studies.…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit, University of Otago and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: December 2019
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Wānangatia te Putanga Tauira | National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement: Mathematics and Statistics 2013
In 2013, the dual focus for the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) was mathematics and statistics, and health and physical education. A nationally representative sample of approximately 2000 students at Year 4 and Year 8 took group-administered paper-and-pencil…
Author(s): Education Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: May 2015
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