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Secondary Principals' Council
Accelerated change in the senior secondary school (2011)
2011 Annual conference paper. At PPTA's 2010 annual conference, members called for a range of workload control measures to alleviate some of the demands of implementing the realigned achievement standards…
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
Briefing for the Incoming Minister 2023
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November 26, 2023
26/10/2023
Building on excellence: How to make a great schooling system even better (2010)
2010 Annual conference paper. This paper challenges the validity of government claims about low achievement and inequity, and suggests that the government goal that all students be able to experience…
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
Digest of major PPTA policy decisions on NCEA 2002 - 2016
(August 2017) Digest of major PPTA policy decisions on the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) from 2002 - 2016.
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August 17, 2020
17/51/2020
NCEA - Result: Not Yet Achieved (plus Supplementary paper) (2002)
2002 Annual Conference Paper. This paper summarises PPTA’s policy positions on qualifications as they have evolved from the early 1990s, then looks in detail at the problems which have arisen…
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August 17, 2020
17/51/2020
NCEA a work in progress (2005)
2005 Annual conference paper. This paper picks up and develops the theme of the 2002 Conference paper ‘The NCEA. Result: Not Yet Achieved’, published halfway through teachers’ first year of…
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July 19, 2021
19/46/2021
NCEA can it be saved (2015)
2015 Annual conference paper. This paper examines why teacher support for the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) has struggled to rise beyond a "fragile consensus" since its 2002
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July 19, 2021
19/47/2021
NCEA Internal Assessment: A harder job than professional marking! (2010)
A combined paper from the Manawatu-Whanganui & Auckland Regions to the 2010 Annual conference.
Marking and giving feedback as part of teaching is the professional responsibility of every teacher. No suggestion…
Marking and giving feedback as part of teaching is the professional responsibility of every teacher. No suggestion…
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
NCEA review 2018: an opportunity for change (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. Between October 2017 and December 2018, there will be a major review of the design of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) conducted by the…
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August 17, 2020
17/51/2020
NCEA the work continues (2006)
2006 Annual conference paper. PPTA’s consistent position is that the union is opposed to substantial change to the design of the NCEA without extensive consultation with teachers and robust research.
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
NCEA: A pathway to the future (2008)
2008 Annual conference 2008. This paper is largely a forward-looking paper, seeking to identify possible ways forward in terms largely of the design of the NCEA. The fact that the…
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
NCEA: Nothing endures but change... (2007)
2007 Annual conference paper. PPTA representatives will continue to use every opportunity to warn of the dangers inherent in some of the recent changes, to seek to have them implemented…
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
Quality Assurance Storyboard
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September 30, 2021
30/31/2021
Seamless Transition or jagged edge? Report of the Secondary-Tertiary Interface Taskforce 2013
(2014) The Seamless Transition or Jagged Edge? report is the result of a wide-ranging investigation, conducted by the Taskforce during 2013, into all the initiatives loosely gathered under the…
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August 17, 2020
17/49/2020
Teachers talk about NCEA (2005)
(2005) The report focuses on the voices of secondary and area school teachers, hence its title ‘Teachers talk about NCEA’. It portrays a profession which is engaged on a hugely…
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June 28, 2021
28/58/2021
Teachers talk about NCEA - Summary (2005)
(2005) Research conducted by Judie Alison (NZPPTA) This is a summary version of a much larger report of the same name. This version does not contain the voices of…
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June 28, 2021
28/57/2021
Teaching the Aotearoa histories curriculum in a culturally and environmentally sustaining integrated science and social studies programme
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May 22, 2025
22/19/2025
The cost of change: PPTA survey on NCEA workload 2010
The NCEA changes implemented from 2011 to 2013 presented some major challenges for all teachers, and teachers in some subjects, roles and schools felt these challenges disproportionately. The…
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August 17, 2020
17/49/2020
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