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Annual Report 2019-2020

Published: 11 Dec 2020

ERO publishes an annual report each year.

Our annual report sets out the operating context, our strategic direction, what we aimed to achieve over the previous 12 months, and what we did achieve.

It also outlines our role and the scope of our functions, reports on organisational health and capability, and includes our financial statements and service performance.

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Basic page

Topics:: Strategy; Achievement; Audit

New research from ERO highlights impact of Covid-19 on education sector

Published: 19 Jan 2021

Suite of reports outlines the impacts of Covid-19 on the education sector and provides lessons for how the sector can support children, whānau, principals and teachers with the ongoing challenges of Covid-19.

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: News article

Topics:: COVID-19; Schools; Learners; Students

New ERO research finds targeted programmes successful in supporting NCEA students after lockdown

Published: 25 Aug 2021

A new report from the Education Review Office (ERO) has found that tailored programmes were successful in supporting Auckland NCEA students learning after lockdown last year.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: News article

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka; Whānau; COVID-19; English-medium; Learning; Māori; Māori ākonga / learners; Māori and Pacific learners; National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA); Pasifika; Students; Teaching; Wellbeing; Whānau

Pacific Strategy 2019-2022

Published: 21 Mar 2019

Our Pacific strategy outlines our role in supporting the improvement of educational outcomes for Pacific learners in Aotearoa. This strategy also describes how we can support the strengthening of our Pacific regional neighbours’ education systems.

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Basic page

Topics:: Pacific; Pacific Strategy; Strategy

Time to talanoa: ERO joins Pacific Education Ministers at CPEM 2023

Published: 20 Mar 2023

The Conference of Pacific Education Ministers (CPEM) brings together Education Ministers, agencies and experts from across the Pacific to share what we collectively know about achieving the best outcomes for learners.

Audience:: Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: News article

Topics:: Pacific; Māori

Literacy and Mathematics in Years 9 and 10: Using Achievement Information to Promote Success

Published: 03 Jul 2012

This evaluation looked at how effectively schools use literacy and mathematics achievement information to improve learning for Years 9 and 10 students. The evaluation found that improvements are needed in most secondary schools’ practice with these students. It identifies the actions which school leaders, boards of trustees and teachers can take to help Years 9 and 10 students to be engaged, active and successful learners.

Audience:: Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Literacy; Mathematics; Achievement; Assessment information; Secondary; Students

Keeping children engaged and achieving through rich curriculum inquiries

Published: 29 Nov 2018

This Education Review Office (ERO) report is one of a series of reports on teaching strategies that work. It features strategies and approaches that we observed in 40 primary schools selected from across New Zealand. These schools came from a database of 129 schools, all with rolls of 200 or more, in which the proportion of students in the upper primary years (Years 5 to 8) achieving at or above the expected standard had increased. In each case, achievement levels were also above average for the decile.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Engagement; Achievement; Curriculum; Raising achievement

Raising student achievement through targeted actions

Published: 18 Dec 2015

In 2015, ERO investigated target setting in both primary and secondary schools. We focused on the extent to which targeted actions of schools supported accelerated progress for students at risk of not achieving.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Raising achievement; Achievement; Primary; Secondary

It's Early Days for the New Digital Technologies Curriculum Content

Published: 31 Jul 2019

ERO examined what barriers and enablers have influenced schools’ preparation for implementation of the new Digital Technologies and Hangarau Maihiko curriculum. The report also alerts school leaders to the need to engage with the curriculum content with the urgency required to meet the January 2020 deadline for implementation.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Digital Technologies | Hangarau Matihiko

Teaching strategies that work - Mathematics

Published: 20 Feb 2018

This Education Review Office (ERO) report is one of a series of reports on teaching strategies that work. It features strategies and approaches that we observed in 40 primary schools selected from across New Zealand. These schools came from a database of 129 schools, all with rolls of 200 or more, in which the proportion of students in the upper primary years (Years 5 to 8) achieving at or above the national standard had increased. In each case achievement levels were also above average for the decile.

Audience:: Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Engagement; Achievement; Mathematics; National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA); Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Mathematics in Years 4 to 8 Developing a Responsive Curriculum

Published: 01 Feb 2013

This report is one of a series of evaluations ERO has undertaken on how schools are working with the National Standards within The New Zealand Curriculum. In this evaluation ERO used the mathematics learning area and associated standards to look at what schools were doing to raise the achievement of students in Years 4 to 8.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Mathematics; Curriculum; Raising achievement; Achievement

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

Keeping children engaged and achieving in writing

Published: 11 Jun 2019

This report shares some of the strategies and approaches used by schools who had focused on improving achievement in writing. It also shares some simple strategies used in classrooms where achievement in writing had been accelerated.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Engagement; Achievement; Writing