NZSA Education Committee

The New Zealand Statistics Association’s Education Committee provides support to the current Ministry of education update processes for the curriculum refresh and NCEA.

Latest Statements & Resources

• Data Gems – A Guide to Dataset Sources from Aotearoa and Beyond (2023)
• Datasets with their NZ contexts – Statistics in Research (2023)

Earlier Statements & Resources

• A guide to recently created statistics resources for Aotearoa New Zealand (2022)
• Links with statistical or modelling content about Covid-19 (Updated October 2022)
• Vocational Pathways and Statistics (May 2022)
• Curriculum Refresh and Statistics: Specific changes (March 2022)
• Vision for senior secondary stats & data science (2021)
• Teaching time series in the Covid-affected era (2021)
• External NCEA assessments in Statistics (2018)
• The Future of NCEA (2018)
• Response to the first NCEA External Examination: 2.12 (2018)
• Literacy for University Entrance: Views from NZSA Education Committee (2018)
• Topics for NCEA Review (2018)
• Feedback on the draft Digital Technologies Hangarau Matihiko consultation booklet (2017)
• Statistics in school and the future of work (2017)
• Describing the trend in a time series (2016)
• Specifically Statistics: Maximising the benefits of statistical learning in schools (2016)
• Poisson model assumptions Note (2015)
• Issues in Level 2 NCEA: Use statistical methods to make an inference AS 91264 (2015)
• Review of e-asTTle assessment tool: Statistics in the New Zealand Curriculum (2015)
• Response to the 2014 NZQA external assessments in the statistics strand of Mathematics and Statistics (2015)
• Issues in Level 3 NCEA Statistics Internal Assessment (2014)
• Ethics in Statistics (2014)