Curriculum Publications
Research on curricular and specific subjects within the curricula.
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Curriculum Insights and Progress Study: Foundational Area - Mathematics 2023
This report estimates the mathematics achievement of Year 3,6 and 8 students in English-medium state and state-integrated schools. Students were assessed in October 2023.…
Author(s): Ministry of Education
Date Published: August 2024
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Curriculum Insights and Progress Study: Foundational Area - Reading 2023
This report estimates the reading achievement of Year 3,6 and 8 students in English-medium state and state-integrated schools. Students were assessed in October 2023.…
Author(s): Ministry of Education
Date Published: August 2024
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Creatives in Schools Programme
This is the home page for the Creatives in Schools programme. The Creatives in Schools programme funded schools and kura to partner with professional artists and creative practitioners to share specialist artistic knowledge and creative practice with ākonga and students.…
Author(s): J Oakden & K Spee, Pragmatica Limited
Date Published: Various
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Values in the New Zealand curriculum: A literature review
Values in the curriculum implicitly and directly affect all members of Aotearoa New Zealand schooling communities. The curriculum itself is not value-neutral. The Ministry of Education has long acknowledged that education is neither value-free nor neutral, and most policy documents…
Author(s): Paul Keown, Lisa Parker and Sarah Tiakiwai, Wilf Malcolm Institute for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: July 2005
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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: 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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All NMSSA
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 assesses all learning areas over a five year cycle.…
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'Walking the talk' matters in the use of evidence for transformative education
Invited paper for the International Bureau of Education - UNESCO Project: Rethinking and repositioning curriculum in the 21st century: A global paradigm shift. Evidence, Data and Knowledge, Ministry of Education, Wellington: New Zealand.…
Author(s): Adrienne Alton-Lee
Date Published: November 2017
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Curriculum Stocktake: National School Sampling Study: Teachers' experiences in curriculum implementation
The following documents comprise the published reports from the National School Sampling Study, a Ministry of Education initiative to investigate how teachers work with the curriculum, 2001-2003, undertaken to inform the Curriculum Stocktake. The reports detail teachers’ experiences in teaching…
Author(s): Various
Date Published: Various
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Literature Review: Innovative Teaching and Learning Practice for Māori-medium Education (2012)
This literature review aims to create an evidence-based foundation for supporting the development of effective and innovative practices that can contribute to quality teaching and learning.…
Author(s): Haemata Limited, Report for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: July 2012
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Supporting future-oriented learning and teaching: A New Zealand perspective
This research project draws together findings from new data and more than 10 years of research on current practice and futures-thinking in education. The report discusses some emerging principles for future learning, how these are currently expressed in New Zealand…
Author(s): Rachel Bolstad and Jane Gilbert, with Sue McDowall, Ally Bull, Sally Boyd and Rosemary Hipkins, New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: June 2012
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An evaluation of Network Learning Communities: Main Report
This report presents findings from a study evaluating the Network Learning Communities initiative in 2010.…
Author(s): Lorrae Ward and Adelle Henderson, CYPERUS with Quigley and Watts. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: May 2011
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An evaluation of Network Learning Communities: Technical Report
This is the technical report from a study evaluating the Network Learning Communities initiative in 2010. It contains detailed analyses of two surveys and presented 10 case study summaries.…
Author(s): Lorrae Ward (Phd) and Adelle Henderson, CYPERUS with Quigley and Watts. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: May 2011
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Curriculum implementation exploratory studies 2
This is the final report from the Curriculum Implementation Exploratory Studies (CIES) project. It reports on ways in which innovative schools and teachers have been working to implement The New Zealand Curriculum across all three years of the project.…
Author(s): Rosemary Hipkins, Bronwen Cowie, Sally Boyd, Paul Keown, and Clive McGee, University of Waikato. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: May 2011
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An evaluation of Network Learning Communities: Summary Report
This is the short summary report from a study evaluating the Network Learning Communities initiative in 2010.…
Author(s): Lorrae Ward, CYPERUS. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: May 2011
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Implementation of the New Zealand curriculum: Synthesis of research and evaluation
The revised New Zealand Curriculum was launched in November 2007, with schools required to give full effect to the curriculum by February 2010. Progress towards this has been monitored using evidence reported by the Education Review Office and research teams…
Author(s): Dr Sandie Schagen. Ministry of Education.
Date Published: March 2011
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Monitoring and evaluating curriculum implementation: Final evaluation report on the implementation of the NZ Curriculum 2008-09
This report presents findings from a national evaluation of the implementation of The New Zealand Curriculum. The project sought to establish a national picture of implementation progress in English-medium schools in the first two years following the curriculum's launch in…
Author(s): Dr Claire Sinnema, The University of Auckland. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: March 2011
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An introduction to the concept of intercultural communicative language teaching and learning: A summary for teachers
This document is an introduction for language teachers to the concept known as intercultural communicative language teaching and learning. It is a summary of a Ministry of Education-commissioned report, Intercultural Communicative Language Teaching: Implications for Effective Teaching and Learning, produced…
Author(s): This summary was written by Janet Rivers, based on a report written by Jonathan Newton, Eric Yates, Sandra Shearn and Werner Nowitzki of Victoria University of Wellington
Date Published: 2010
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Intercultural communicative language teaching: Implications for effective teaching and learning
This report on intercultural communicative language teaching was commissioned by the Ministry of Education in the context of the development of the 2007 New Zealand Curriculum, with its new learning area of learning languages.…
Author(s): Jonathan Newton, Eric Yates, Sandra Shearn and Werner Nowitzki, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies and the Jessie Hetherington Centre for Educational Research, Victoria University of Wellington. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: 2010
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Curriculum implementation exploratory studies: Final Report
This final report provides an overview of the findings from the Curriculum Implementation Exploratory Studies (CIES) project.…
Author(s): Bronwen Cowie, Rosemary Hipkins, Sally Boyd, Ally Bull, Paul Keown, Clive McGee, with Beverley Cooper, Jenny Ferrier-Kerr, Anne Hume, Anne McKim, Judy Moreland, Michele Morrison, Rachel Bolstad, Lorraine Spiller, Merilyn Taylor, and Russell Yates, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, The University of Waikato. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: October 2009
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