Source: Radio New Zealand
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Education Minister Erica Stanford have unveiled changes to how students’ progress is reported.
The government says the new reports will give families clearer information about their children.
It says the reports will ensure all primary and intermediate schools describe children’s achievement in reading, writing and maths twice a year in the same way.
They will rank children’s achievement on a five-point scale – emerging, developing, consolidating, proficient and exceeding.
The reports will also provide an overall percentage score and describe what the child can do in each of the three subjects .
The government says schools will report on other subjects and on student behaviour as they do now.
It comes as schools are opening up again for 2026 and must use new maths and English curriculums for students in Years 0-10 this year. Draft curriculums for other subject areas are out for consultation until mid-April.
By the end of 2025, nine percent of students in Year 13 and 15 percent of Year 12s had not achieved the literacy and numeracy co-requisite, figures provided to RNZ by NZQA show. The achievement rates were the lowest in the past five years.
They equated to about 5000 Year 13s and 10,000 Year 12s who would not receive any NCEA certificates because they had not yet met the requirement.
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