Rose Hipkins is a Chief Researcher at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Rose has particular expertise in the key competencies, curriculum and assessment, science education and secondary education. Rose's current research programme includes ongoing investigations of the implementation of the New Zealand Curriculum (2007) and in particular:
- the nature of key competencies and their impact on the taught curriculum in different learning areas
- alignment of the curriculum and the NCEA, and other ongoing NCEA-related issues
- science teaching and learning for the 21st century, including teaching for "systems thinking" in science
- issues and challenges in relation to assessment for learning and evidence-based decision-making in teaching
