Curriculum Insights and Progress Study: Contextual insights report 2024 - Mathematics and Science Publications
Publication Details
The purpose of this report is to provide contextual information to complement and help interpret the study’s 2024 achievement data for the mathematics and statistics, and science learning areas. For the most part, this report presents descriptive statistics reflecting the perspectives of students, teachers, and principals in relation to learning in schools.
Author(s): The Educational Assessment Research Unit (EARU) at the University of Otago, and the New Zealand Council for Educational research (NZCER). Report for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: May 2026
Curriculum context
The Mathematics and statistics and Science learning area assessments were administered in Term 3 of 2024. The mathematics and statistics assessments were informed by the 2024 refreshed New Zealand Curriculum.
In 2024, the New Zealand Curriculum (2007) remained in place for science. As such, it provided the basis for the Curriculum Insights science learning area study.
About the report
This contextual insights report describes findings relating to each of the following muka (strands). Each chapter focusses on one muka.
- Chapter 1: He muka tangata | Demographic and general information
- Chapter 2: He muka mātauranga | Curriculum, content, and pedagogy
- Chapter 3: He muka hīhiri | Motivational factors
More information is available on the website of the Curriculum Insights and Progress Study.
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