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How Curriculum and Assessment Policies Affect the Role of Reading in an Assessment Culture: A New Zealand Case Study
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Henning Fjørtoft; Mei Kuin Lai; Mengnan Li – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2024
Reading assessment is a critical feature of education systems. The aim of this study is to explore reading assessment policy in the New Zealand (NZ) assessment culture. We reviewed research publications, national policy documents and test protocols on reading for year levels 6-9 (ages 9-13). We found that assessment data are broadly conceptualised…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Curriculum, Student Evaluation
Going It Alone: New Zealand Company-Sponsored Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) Training in an Era of Government Funding
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Guy, Shona; Harvey, Sharon – Journal of Education and Work, 2013
In this paper, we examine the nature of and reasons for employer-funded literacy, language and numeracy (LLN) workplace training in New Zealand, during a period where government funding has been available. To place these programmes in context, we give a historically nuanced account of employer-funded programmes in New Zealand and then look at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Financial Support, Federal Aid
Changing Our Secondary Schools
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Haque, Bali – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2014
This is a powerful critique of two decades of educational reform in New Zealand, from an educator who was deeply involved. It is also a provocative call for action. Bali Haque has been both a secondary school principal required to implement reform and a senior public servant in the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) tasked with pushing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Secondary Schools