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Accelerating the Progress of Priority Learners in Primary Schools

Published: 31 May 2013

This national report presents the findings of ERO’s recent evaluation about the extent to which primary schools were using effective strategies to improve outcomes for priority groups of learners. In this report ‘priority learners’ refers to Māori, Pacific, special needs, and students from low income families, who are not achieving at or above National Standards.

Audience:: Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Priority learners; Māori; Pacific; Special education; Low socio-economic communities; Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS); The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)

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)

Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako in action

Published: 25 Jan 2017

This is the first of a series of iterative reports which draw together what ERO knows about CoL | Kāhui Ako, as they move from establishment to implementation.

Audience:: Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Communities of Learning | Kāhui ako; Progress and Consistency Tool (PaCT)

Student feedback: promoting teacher learning

Published: 04 Sep 2017

At McAuley High School, leaders and teachers actively model learning behaviour for the students including eliciting student feedback on a regular basis

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Feedback; Professional development; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Student feedback: observing the teacher

Published: 04 Sep 2017

At Otumoetai Intermediate School, Student Learning Leaders learn how to undertake structured classroom observations focused on teaching and learning. The students and staff discuss the process and its impact.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Feedback; Leadership; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Ako Panuku: An evaluation of the programme’s effectiveness

Published: 02 Aug 2012

This evaluation looks at the Ako Panuku programme, which is funded by the Ministry of Education for Māori secondary/kura teachers. ERO conducted an online survey of all teachers involved in the programme and also visited a number of schools and kura. Our findings show that a high proportion of teachers found the programme to be highly effective or effective for them. Ako Panuku has had positive outcomes for participants and their students.

Audience:: Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Ako Panuku; Evaluation; Kura; Teachers | Kaiako; Māori secondary teachers