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Unpacking AI assessments: Managing common misconceptions
Article #9 of AI in Education Article Series: May 2025
What are four common misconceptions relating to the use of AI in education? Let's explore how education providers can manage them.
Social and market research
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From Vets to VET: Lessons from WorkMate’s AI model for Veterinarians
Article #8 of AI in Education Article Series: May 2025
Hear from Tom Brownlie, founder of veterinary AI tool WorkMate, and his tips for an educator using AI for assessment.
Social and market research
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Cogniti AI: Choosing a platform or custom agent
Article #7 of AI in Education Article Series: April 2025
Learn about Cogniti, a generative AI platform that educators can use to create their own AI agents.
Social and market research
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Māori perspectives on AI: Researchers and Innovators
Article #6 of AI in Education Article Series: April 2025
Understand who is publishing about the intersection of AI and Te Ao Māori, or working on innovative AI projects so you know who to follow, or connect with on your own projects.
Social and market research
Article
Government guidance: For educators using AI agents
Article #5 of AI in Education Article Series: March 2025
Read about three pieces of government guidance on AI use and how this may apply to an AI agent for learner oral assessment.
Social and market research
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Weighing it up: Potential benefits and risks of AI assessment
Article #4 of AI in Education Article Series: February 2025
Learn about the potential benefits and risks of learner-focused agents based on conversations with industry stakeholders and initial research.
Social and market research
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Assessment possibilities: Different types of AI for assessment
Article #3 of AI in Education Article Series: February 2025
Learn about AI in assessments, their possible forms, features and how different stakeholders might use them.
Social and market research
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Shaping the Future: AI education projects in Oceania
Article #2 of AI in Education Article Series: January 2025
Curious about what AI agent projects exist across education in Oceania? See our log, understand why they are relevant and who to contact for each.
Social and market research
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The global landscape: How AI is transforming education
Article #1 of AI in Education Article Series: January 2025
Welcome to the wonderful world of AI in education! Learn about products and projects that could help with delivery, assessment, and pastoral care.
Social and market research
News
Accelerating Pathways for Rural Women
We conducted Integrated Data Infrastructure research, surveys and interviews to understand how pathways could be designed to help rural women enter the workforce.
View the interactive dashboard and reports
Social and market research
News
Improving funding and support for collective action groups
We ran a webinar to share our research and introduce the SWIFT tool we created. The tool helps improve funding and support that empowers collective action groups to achieve complex environmental outcomes.
Watch the webinar
Extension and training, Social and market research
News
Assessing rural wellbeing through a farmer-focused survey
We reviewed existing wellbeing assessment approaches and then co-developed a farmer-focused wellbeing assessment survey, which is now being utilised across the primary industries.
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Organisational wellbeing, Social and market research
News
Urban Sustainability Leaders Inspired by Farmers
Scarlatti piloted this project which brought urban and rural businesses together to talk about sustainability. It has resulted in a raft of changes to reduce environmental impact.
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Social and market research
News
QUICKly valuing agricultural research and extension
We contributed to this journal article about how the complexity of farming and rural communities poses challenges to research and extension initiatives seeking industry-wide change.
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Impact modelling, Extension and training
News
Resilience building in agricultural extension programmes
We contributed to this study which examines whether there was a change in on-farm resilience through farmer participation in participatory extension.
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Monitoring and evaluation
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Wellbeing, environmental sustainability and profitability
We contributed to this journal article which explores how participatory extension programmes with a focus on peer-to-peer learning can support farmers to increase resilience.
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Monitoring and evaluation
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Valuing the benefits of research and extension
We developed an innovative benefit-cost analysis framework to evaluate the benefits of the 'Hill Country Futures' programme, a B+LNZ initiative aimed at enhancing the environmental sustainability, profitability, and well-being of New Zealand’s hill country farmers and their communities.
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Impact modelling, Monitoring and evaluation
News
Infrastructure workforce capacity baselining study
We completed a baseline analysis of NZ’s infrastructure workforce on behalf of Te Waihanga. This will help Te Waihanga to identify future capacity pressures across the workforce and how the industry can respond.
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Workforce research
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Attraction and retention in the food and fibre sector
We worked with the Food and Fibre CoVE to understand why workforce shortages have persisted across the food and fibre sector and what opportunities are available to address these in the future.
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Workforce research
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To incentivise or not? Navigating the incentive dilemma in research
Incentives can be seen as a golden ticket but should you use them?
Social and market research
Article
Attracting a Workforce with a Job Competitiveness Calculator
As an employer, the first step to attracting and retaining people is putting forward your best offer. To do this, you need to understand what employees value most.
Workforce research
Article
Are Psychosocial Hazards Sabotaging your Workplace?
Questions and actions regarding workplace wellbeing and psychosocial hazards are on the rise. But what exactly is meant by psychosocial risks, and how can you take action for a healthier workplace?
Organisational wellbeing
Article
Internships: A Win-win for Interns and Business
Hear from our summer interns as they reflect on their time at Scarlatti, and from Scarlatti director Adam Barker on how to unlock an intern's potential.
Article
What Does Collaboration and Co-design Mean?
We often hear the terms collaboration and co-design as we plan and undertake projects, but what do these mean in practice?
Extension and training
Article
How Effective is Your Wellbeing Programme, Really?
An effective wellbeing programme involves a lot more than encouraging people to move and eat their veggies.
Organisational wellbeing
Article
How Conjoint Analysis Helped Santa and his Elves
A conjoint analysis survey uses trade-offs as a way for people to indicate their preferences. Find out what value Santa's elves place on their wellbeing and the environment.
Social and market research
Article
Estimating the Impact of Extension Activities
Extension teams are made up of awesome people trying to do amazing things, but how do we measure the impact of the work these teams are doing?
Impact modelling
Article
Three Tips to Creating an Engaging Survey - that you might not have heard before
A great survey does more than collect valuable insights. But how do we keep people engaged?
Social and market research
Article
A Logical Approach to Big Dreams and Priorities
How can you keep discussions focused, decide on project outcomes, and harness everyone's experience? A logic model of course.
Monitoring and evaluation
News
Building a community of interest next step to growing new food and fibre website
Hear from Scarlatti's Dana Carver and Adam Barker about the tech-enabled learning research and engaging with educators and providers in the primary industries.
Workforce research
News
Farming in a Changing World: Lessons from E350
Scarlatti evaluated the impact of Northland’s E350 large extension programme with DairyNZ and Lincoln University. Extension 350 was a farmer-led mentoring and extension programme designed to lift profitability, environmental sustainability, and wellbeing on Northland, New Zealand
Monitoring and evaluation
News
New Workforce Plan for Sector
Scarlatti were part of the team that developed the Great Futures in Dairying workforce plan. The plan signals a different direction with workforce development with an increased focus on labour productivity gains and talent retention, and a reduced focus on talent attraction.
Workforce research
News
Organising Micro-credentials a Priority for Food and Fibre Sector
Scarlatti have been project managing this Food and Fibre CoVE initiative, together with Dairy Training, to create a system for micro-credentials across the sector.
Workforce research
News
Te Pūkenga and Learners Work Together to Design the Future
Scarlatti undertook data analysis using Statistics New Zealand’s Integrated Data Infrastructure to understand and quantify learner volumes, origins and destinations post-graduation, which has been used to inform the development of Te Pūkenga’s equity strategy. Read how Te Pūkenga is working with staff and students.
News
Red Meat Profit Partnership – The Beginning
Scarlatti reviewed the economic impact of the Red Meat Profit Partnership finding that it will return $18.50 for each dollar invested in it.
Impact modelling, Monitoring and evaluation
News
Food and Fibre sector tech-enabled learning website
Scarlatti, was commissioned to run the Lessons from Lockdown research project, in conjunction with Dairy Training NZ, Wintec and the Primary ITO which resulted in a website techenabledlearning.nz
Workforce research
News
What is Operations Research?
Need a better understanding of operations research? Check out this article by Towards Data Science.
Operations research
News
Trades vs University
Scarlatti found that before the age of 30, many tradies made more on average than university graduates.
Workforce research
News
Gaps in the Dairy Farming Workforce
Scarlatti worked with DairyNZ, Federated Farmers and other organisations to develop updated estimates of the shortage of people in New Zealand’s dairy farming workforce and analyse the impact of different interventions to address this.
Workforce research
News
Construction Industry Workforce Information Platform
Scarlatti worked with BCITO to develop the Construction Industry Workforce Information Platform to provide labour market updates and forecasts for different regions in New Zealand.
Workforce research
News
Wellington City Construction Projects Stalling
Scarlatti has undertaken modelling for the Construction Industry Workforce Information Platform to estimate the size of the workforce shortage given the large number of construction projects in different regions including Wellington.
Workforce research
News
DairyNZ Relaunches GoDairy
Scarlatti undertook the review of the initial GoDairy campaign identifying a range of strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement; many of which have been implemented into the latest campaign.