News

2025 Foundation Assessments Reports released

Four collections of learning area reports are now live and freely available on our website.

A new report, Pouārahi: Supporting ākonga Māori in writing, shines a light on the practices making a difference in schools across Aotearoa.

New reporting from the Curriculum Insights and Progress Study has indicated how students are progressing in reading and maths.

NMSSA has released further findings as part of its 2022 study on mathematics & statistics, and health & physical education.

Achievement Findings for 2022 about Aotearoa New Zealand students' achievements in Mathematics & Statistics, and Health & PE have been released.

A selection of key resources from our 2021 nationwide assessment.

Key Findings for 2021 about New Zealand students' achievements in Technology, Learning Languages and The Arts have been released.

NMSSA invites you to listen into this informative webinar, which draws on NMSSA’s Insights For Teachers: Health and Physical Education 2017 Report.

Aronuitia te reo is a deck of cards designed to prompt professional conversations about improving the teaching and learning of te reo Māori.

In early February, the Ministry of Education held a special webinar about recent findings from large scale education research studies (including TIMSS, PISA and NMSSA) and what actions they can prompt us all to take.

Following the release of NMSSA Insights reports on creating meaning and making meaning in English, NMSSA has now released Insight reports into multimodal texts and critical literacy and writing for an audience.

In this post, I look at how NMSSA’s new Insights reports for the English learning area takes some of their inspiration from the national assessment programme that preceded NMSSA — the National Educational Monitoring Project (NEMP).