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Published: 06 Apr 2020
The newly developed indicators of quality for early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand are now available on the ERO website.
Published: 21 Sep 2022
Equity and excellence, barrier free access to Māori language, culture and identity for all students is a step closer with today’s launch of Poutama Reo the improvement journey for te reo Māori in English-medium schools. It will also benefit whānau, hapū and Iwi.
Published: 05 Aug 2015
The report examines how well 235 early childhood services supported infants and toddlers to become competent and confident communicators and explorers.
Published: 01 Nov 2013
This good practice report presents examples from five early childhood services where priorities for children’s learning were well considered and reflected on.
Published: 19 Jun 2015
This report looks at how well New Zealand early childhood services and schools are supporting transitions to school and highlights what's important and examples of good practice.
Published: 31 Mar 2021
This section explains what reviews we do and how we review your early childhood service. This includes centre-based, home-based and hospital-based education and care services. It explains our different approaches to reviews Akanuku | Assurance Reviews, Akarangi | Quality Evaluations and Education Reviews.
Published: 18 May 2021
Published: 02 Dec 2009
This Education Review Office (ERO) evaluation focused on how effectively reading and writing was taught in the first two years of schooling, and on how well teachers used assessment information to plan and evaluate their teaching.
Published: 23 Aug 2024
Language is the foundation for children’s learning and success. Children use oral language to become good thinkers and communicators, and to develop the literacy skills they need to achieve well in school and beyond. This report draws together a range of evidence to look at how well children are developing the oral language skills they need when they start school. We also look at how Early Childhood Education (ECE) can help children to develop these important skills, and recommendations for action.
Published: 18 May 2021
Science is important - we rely on scientific thinking in almost every endeavour in our modern society. Covid-19 has shown us how important science is and, with science-related issues such as climate change and vaccines increasingly impacting on society, it is essential that we have high quality science education.
Published: 01 Jan 2009
The Education Review Office (ERO) undertook a national evaluation of the implementation of self review in 397 services in Terms 1, 2 and 3, 2008. The evaluation focused on how well self review was understood, supported and implemented in each service and the extent to which it led to improved management and educator practice.
Published: 06 Apr 2021
Te Pou Mataaho use their specialist kaupapa Māori research and evaluation expertise to support Māori enjoying and achieving education success as Māori.
Published: 29 Feb 2016
In Term 1, 2015, ERO evaluated how well 200 early childhood services managed their responsibilities under the Privacy Act 1993. The evaluation looked at what service leaders knew and understood about their responsibilities around the collection, storage, use, sharing and disposal of information about children.
Published: 31 Mar 2021
Read about our we conduct Akanuku | Assurance Reviews of early childhood services. This page also includes all of the documents that services need to complete as part of their review including a letter, assurance statement, and statistical information.
Published: 17 Apr 2020
This ERO case study is part of a wider research by Oranga Tamariki to assess the benefits of SWiS, a government-funded service provided in most decile 1-3 primary and intermediate schools.
Published: 07 Sep 2020
This poster presents, the indicators from ERO’s Te Ara Poutama|Indicators of quality for early childhood education: what matters most, published in 2020. It shows the outcome indicators, which are the learning outcomes for children from Te Whāriki. It also shows the process indicators for the learning and organisational conditions in early childhood services that support children’s learning outcomes.
Published: 31 Mar 2021
Te Tāhū Whare | Evaluation and Review Māori carries out reviews at kōhanga reo, puna reo, kura and wharekura; conducts evaluation and research and develops evaluation methodology for Māori-medium settings.
Published: 02 Aug 2021
Resources to support evaluation for improvement in early childhood services
Published: 10 Dec 2020
Early childhood education services had to quickly adapt to changing requirements and periods of uncertainty due to Covid-19. During lockdown, services had to transition to supporting children to learn from their homes. After lockdown, they had to support children to return to services and continue their learning in a Covid-19 world. This summary highlights the efforts of early childhood services to support students and their whānau.
Published: 12 Apr 2021
New reports, published today by the Education Review Office (ERO), highlight the importance of high-quality science teaching for improving outcomes in science for New Zealand tamariki.
