All NMSSA Publications
There are 8 learning areas specified in the New Zealand Curriculum: The Arts, Health and Physical Education, Science, English, Mathematics and Statistics, Social Sciences, Technology, and Learning Languages. 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 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 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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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 2021: Technology - The algorithmic element of computational thinking
Providing students with opportunities to develop sequenced instructions engages them in algorithmic thinking. Recording algorithmic thinking clearly and concisely builds foundational coding skills.…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit, University of Otago and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: March 2023
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NMSSA 2021: The Arts - Exemplars for teachers
This set of exemplars illustrates the practical or ‘performance’ component of the assessment of the arts learning area carried out by the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) in 2021. One performance task from each of the four arts…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit, University of Otago and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: March 2023
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NMSSA 2021: Technology - Key Findings
The National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) is a national sampling study designed to assess student achievement across the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) at Year 4 and Year 8 in English-medium state and state integrated schools. The study is…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: November 2022
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NMSSA 2021: Learning Languages - Key Findings
The National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) is a national sampling study designed to assess student achievement across the New Zealand Curriculum at Year 4 and Year 8 in English-medium state and state integrated schools. The study is organised…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit, University of Otago, and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: November 2022
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NMSSA 2021: The Arts - Key Findings
The National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) is a national sampling study designed to assess student achievement across the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) at Year 4 and Year 8 in English-medium state and state integrated schools. The study is…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: November 2022
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NMSSA 2021: Technical Information
This report is comprised of a set of technical appendices that supplement the suite of 2021 NMSSA Key findings reports. The appendices in this report outline the methods and procedures used to design, develop, implement, and report the results of…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: November 2022
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NMSSA 2019 English: Multimodal texts and critical literacy
This report is designed to support the teaching of English in primary and intermediate classrooms. It draws on insights generated from the assessment of the English learning area by the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) in 2019. The…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: June 2021
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NMSSA English 2019: Writing for an audience
This report is designed to support the teaching of English in primary and intermediate classrooms. It draws on insights generated from the assessment of the English learning area by the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) in 2019. The…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: June 2021
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NMSSA 2019 English: Creating Meaning
This report is designed to support the teaching of English in primary and intermediate classrooms. It draws on insights generated from the assessment of the English learning area carried out by the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) in…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: March 2021
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NMSSA 2019 English: Making meaning
This report is designed to support the teaching of English in primary and intermediate classrooms. It draws on insights generated from the assessment of the English learning area by the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) in 2019. The…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: March 2021
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NMSSA 2019: Technical Information
A two-stage sampling design was used to select nationally representative samples of students at Year 4 and at Year 8. The first stage involved sampling schools; the second stage involved sampling students within schools. A stratified random sampling approach was…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: November 2020
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NMSSA 2019 English: Key Findings
In 2019, NMSSA assessed achievement in the English learning area using a nationally representative sample of about 2,000 students at each of Year 4 and Year 8. In the first stage of a two-stage sampling design, a stratified random sampling…
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: November 2020
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