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Attendance - Getting back to school: A guide for parents and whānau

Published: 21 Feb 2023

It is important for learners to attend school regularly. The Education Reviews Office (ERO) looked what helps children go to school, and what makes it harder. This guide will help parents to see why attendance matters, and how they can help their child to get the most out of school.  

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research

Education for Disabled Learners in Schools: Examples of Good Practice for Teachers

Published: 28 Sep 2022

ERO looked at how well the education system is supporting disabled learners in schools. This guide provides practical advice and real-life examples of good practice for teachers to support the inclusion and learning success of disabled learners at your school.

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research

New report to support maths teaching

Published: 15 Feb 2024

ERO’s new report highlights what teachers can do to provide quality maths education for New Zealand’s learners in the first years of school. 

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article

Missing Out: Why Aren’t Our Children Going to School? - Summary

Published: 10 Nov 2022

Going to school is critical for our children’s futures. The evidence is clear that every day of school matters – missing school leads to lower achievement. Aotearoa New Zealand has lower attendance than other countries and, alarmingly, attendance is falling. This short summary looks at some of the reasons why.

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Learning in a Covid-19 World: How school leadership rose to the challenge

Published: 10 Dec 2020

Principals and school leaders have taken on a lot of responsibility during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Education Review Office interviewed principals and board chairs and surveyed 1777 principals across the country from May through to September 2020 to understand how they have responded. This summary highlights how those school leaders rose to the challenge.

Audience:
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
COVID-19
Leadership
Schools
School leaders

A Guide for School Boards Considering Cohort Entry

Published: 31 May 2022

This guide for boards draws on findings from ERO’s report Starting School Together: What Do We Know? and provides insights from schools that have changed to cohort entry. 

Audience:
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research

Learning in a Covid-19 World: How schools have stepped up to support students and whānau

Published: 10 Dec 2020

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has caused significant disruption for students across New Zealand, due to lockdowns, social distancing and ongoing uncertainty. The Education Review Office interviewed 750 schools and surveyed over 2500 principals and teachers across the country, from May through to September 2020, to understand how they have responded. This summary highlights how schools have supported students and their whānau in the face of Covid-19.

Audience:
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
COVID-19
Schools
Parents
Whānau
Students

Extending their language - expanding their world: Children’s oral language (birth-8 years)

Published: 09 Feb 2017

Research evidence shows early in a child’s life is a critical time in terms of the rapid language development that takes place, particularly in the first two to three years.

This evaluation investigated how effectively young children’s oral language learning and development were supported in their early years of education.

Audience:
Early learning
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Linguistically diverse learners
Oral language
Much more than words: Manuka takoto kawea ake

Learning in a Covid-19 World: Supporting Primary School Students as They Return to the Classroom

Published: 23 Sep 2021

This short report, aimed at primary school leaders, sets out how prepared students and schools felt ahead of the Covid-19 lockdown in August and provides recommendations for how schools can support their students as they return to the classroom. 

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre
COVID-19

Challenging behaviours in New Zealand classrooms at critical levels

Published: 28 Mar 2024

New research from the Education Review Office (ERO) has found that disruptive behaviour in New Zealand’s classrooms is worse than other countries, is a rapidly growing problem, and is getting in the way of learning. 

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article

Newly Graduated Teachers: Preparation and Confidence to Teach

Published: 08 Dec 2017

In this evaluation, ERO met with newly graduated teachers (NGTs) and leaders in early learning services and schools to find out how confident and prepared NGTs were as a result of their ITE programme.

Audience:
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Beginning teachers
Initial Teacher Education

Partnerships between home and community

Published: 04 Sep 2017

This school seeks every opportunity to connect with the groups within its multicultural community to support those groups to connect to one another as well as engage with the school and their children’s learning.

Audience:
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Improvement
Relationships
Evaluation indicators
Leadership
Video
Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Ethnic diversity in New Zealand state schools

Published: 01 Jan 2018

This article originally appeared in ERO Insights - Term 1, 2018 and explores how the ethnic diversity of the primary and secondary school roll has changed in New Zealand since 2009, and whether these changes are leading to more diverse or more segregated schools.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Ethnic diversity
Diversity
Cultural diversity
State schools

Responding to Language Diversity in Auckland

Published: 29 Apr 2018

Auckland is New Zealand’s most culturally diverse city, with over 100 ethnicities and more than 150 languages spoken on a daily basis. How are schools and early learning services in Auckland responding to this increasing cultural and language diversity? This question was the basis for a new evaluation published by ERO Responding to Language Diversity in Auckland. 

Audience:
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Language
Diversity
Cultural diversity
Ethnicity
Immigrants

Long Covid: Ongoing impacts of Covid‑19 on schools and learning - Summary

Published: 22 Jun 2023

Since 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption to schools, their staff, learners, and whānau. Three years on from the start of the pandemic, this report has found significant and concerning ongoing impacts on learners’ progress, particularly for learners in poorer communities, and on teachers and principals.

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Working with the National Standards: Interim Findings Term 3, 2010

Published: 26 Nov 2010

This is an interim report of findings from 80 schools reviewed in Term 3, 2010.As part of the review process, ERO asked specific questions about each school's use of National Standards, its preparedness for these and how well school leaders, teachers and trustees understood the National Standards. Findings from Term 3 and 4 will be aggregated and published as a national evaluation report in early 2011.

Audience:
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research

Including Students with High Needs: School Questionnaire Responses (2)

Published: 09 Sep 2012

All children deserve the right to an education including those with special education needs. Through its Success for All policy, the Government expects all schools to demonstrate inclusive practice for children with special education needs by the end of 2014. This report presents the findings of a questionnaire where schools assess their own provisions for students with special education needs. It follows on from a similar report produced in early 2012.

Audience:
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Special education
High needs
Inclusive practices
Questionnaire
Teacher aides
Special education needs coordinators (SENCO)