NMSSA 2022: Keeping Safe on Social Media – Year 8 students’ strategies Publications
Publication Details
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
Introduction
Links to The New Zealand Curriculum
‘Identifying risk and describing safe practices in a range of contexts’ is a Level 2 achievement outcome described in the Personal Health and Physical Development strand of the health and PE learning area in the New Zealand Curriculum. By Level 4 students should be making and actioning safe choices in a range of contexts. Students at Level 4 should also be able to describe how social messages can affect feelings of self-worth.
Social media and belonging – an OECD hypothesis
Based on PISA results from 2018, the OECD reported a decline in student’s sense of belonging at school.
They propose that a plausible cause is the increased use of social media and its impact on effective ‘offline’ relationships[1].
Footnote
- Have students’ feelings of belonging at school waned over time? PISA in Focus #100.
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