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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

Student Safety in Schools Recruiting and Managing Staff

Published: 23 Jan 2014

This report presents the findings of ERO's 2013 evaluation of how schools ensure student safety when recruiting and managing staff. ERO focused on four key areas in this evaluation. To make this report easier for school staff and trustess to consider, the findings, recommendations and self-review tools have been grouped under each of the four headings below:

Audience:
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Safety
Vulnerable Children's Bill
Board of Trustees
New Zealand School Trustees Association (NZSTA)
School policies and procedures

Bullying Prevention and Response in New Zealand Schools May 2019

Published: 13 May 2019

New Zealand schools have one of the highest rates of bullying among OECD member countries. In this evaluation, ERO looked at the extent to which schools were effectively working towards an environment in which students feel safe and free from bullying.

A companion report to this one, Bullying Prevention and Response: Student Voice focuses on ERO’s survey of students on their experience and understandings of bullying and effective bullying prevention and response.

Audience:
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Bullying
Students
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L)

Evaluation at a glance: A decade of assessment in New Zealand Primary Schools - Practice and trends

Published: 24 Apr 2018

High quality assessment and evaluation allows us to focus on student progress and outcomes at classroom, school and system levels.  It helps teachers, schools and systems to report on student achievement across points in time, and provide information for parents, trustees and the public about the quality of education. 

Audience:
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Evaluation
Assessment
Formative assessment
The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA)

Working with the National Standards: Raising student achievement in reading, writing and mathematics

Published: 06 Apr 2011

This is the latest report in the series of ERO's national evaluation reports about the implementation of the National Standards in English-medium schools with students in Years 1 to 8.The evaluation involved 237 schools reviewed by ERO in Terms 3 and 4, 2010. The report indicates that schools are still at varying stages of working with the National Standards.

Audience:
Education
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Reading
Writing
Mathematics
Self-review
National Administrative Guidelines (NAGs)

Teaching approaches and strategies that work

Published: 24 Nov 2017

This evaluation looks at teaching approaches and strategies used in schools where there has been a significant increase in the number of students at or above National Standards in the upper primary school years (Years 5 to 8). We wanted to learn more about any short-term interventions or long-term strategies that may have been influential in bringing about these positive achievement trajectories. We have shared and discussed our findings from some of the 40 schools we visited.

Audience:
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP)
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA)
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

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)

Teaching strategies that work - Reading

Published: 14 May 2018

The Education Review Office (ERO) has released the latest in its Teaching Strategies that Work series. “Keeping children engaged and achieving in reading” is a description of strategies used by primary schools which have significantly improved their students’ achievement in reading.

Audience:
Education
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Reading
Engagement
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA)
Accelerated learning

Reading and Writing in Years 1 and 2

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.

Audience:
Early learning
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Reading
Writing
Curriculum
National Administrative Guidelines (NAGs)
Instructional teaching

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