TY - BOOK
T1 - National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement Report 20
T2 - Social Studies 2018 – Key Findings
AU - NMSSA team
AU - Young, Sharon
AU - Liau, Albert
AU - Jones, Lynette
AU - White, Jane
AU - Gilmore, Alison
AU - Asil, Mustafa
AU - Lancaster, Doris
AU - Jenkins, Linda
AU - Rae, James
AU - Rae, Fiona
AU - Baker, Lee
N1 - The NMSSA project team wishes to acknowledge the very important and valuable support and contributions of many people to this project, including:
• members of the curriculum advisory panel and reference groups for social studies
• principals, teachers and students of the schools where the tasks were piloted and trials
were conducted
• principals, teachers and Board of Trustees’ members of the schools that participated in
the 2018 main study including the linking study
• the students who participated in the assessments and their parents, whānau and caregivers
• the teachers who administered the assessments to the students
• the teachers and senior initial teacher education students who undertook the marking
• the Ministry of Education Research Team and Steering Committee.
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - The National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) is designed to assess student achievement across the New Zealand Curriculum1 (NZC) at Year 4 and Year 8 in English-medium state and stateintegrated schools. The study is organised in five-year cycles. The first cycle ran from 2012 to 2016. In 2018, NMSSA assessed social studies achievement using a nationally representative sample of about 1,200 students at each year level. A two-stage sampling design was used to construct each sample. In the first stage, a stratified random sampling approach that took into account school decile, geographical region and school size was used to select 100 schools at each year level. In the second stage, a maximum of 12 students were randomly selected from each school to take part in the study2. Results were reported on a measurement scale called the Nature of Social Studies (NSS). Questionnaires were also used to gather contextual information from students, teachers and principals. NMSSA last assessed social studies in 2014. The 2014 and 2018 NSS measurement scales were linked on the basis of assessment tasks that were used at both points in time. This allowed results from the separate studies to be compared. The linking process involved reconstructing the 2014 achievement distributions using the plausible values approach employed in 2018. This means that achievement statistics presented in this report vary from the statistics presented in the original 2014 report. This report is designed to provide a succinct overview of key findings from the 2018 social studies study, compare changes in student achievement since 2014, and report on contextual factors. The report is supplemented by a report focused on curriculum insights, a technical information report and an online interactive statistical application. All reports and the interactive application can be found on the NMSSA website (www.nmssa.otago.ac.nz)
AB - The National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) is designed to assess student achievement across the New Zealand Curriculum1 (NZC) at Year 4 and Year 8 in English-medium state and stateintegrated schools. The study is organised in five-year cycles. The first cycle ran from 2012 to 2016. In 2018, NMSSA assessed social studies achievement using a nationally representative sample of about 1,200 students at each year level. A two-stage sampling design was used to construct each sample. In the first stage, a stratified random sampling approach that took into account school decile, geographical region and school size was used to select 100 schools at each year level. In the second stage, a maximum of 12 students were randomly selected from each school to take part in the study2. Results were reported on a measurement scale called the Nature of Social Studies (NSS). Questionnaires were also used to gather contextual information from students, teachers and principals. NMSSA last assessed social studies in 2014. The 2014 and 2018 NSS measurement scales were linked on the basis of assessment tasks that were used at both points in time. This allowed results from the separate studies to be compared. The linking process involved reconstructing the 2014 achievement distributions using the plausible values approach employed in 2018. This means that achievement statistics presented in this report vary from the statistics presented in the original 2014 report. This report is designed to provide a succinct overview of key findings from the 2018 social studies study, compare changes in student achievement since 2014, and report on contextual factors. The report is supplemented by a report focused on curriculum insights, a technical information report and an online interactive statistical application. All reports and the interactive application can be found on the NMSSA website (www.nmssa.otago.ac.nz)
UR - https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/series/nmssa/all-nmssa-publications/nmssa-2018-social-studies
M3 - Commissioned Report
SN - 978-1-927286-50-0
BT - National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement Report 20
PB - Educational Assessment Research Unit (EARU), University of Otago
CY - Dunedin, New Zealand
ER -