Strategic Intentions 2016 – 2020
Published: 30 Jun 2016
The Education Review Office (ERO)'s Strategic Intentions sets out our objectives and how ERO contributes to the Government's priorities for education.
- Audience:
- Academics
- Early learning
- Education
- Māori-medium
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Basic page
- Topics:
- Strategy
Year 9 Plus 2016 – the first year (Year 9)
Published: 24 Jul 2017
Year 9 Plus is an educational concept developed by the Ministry of Education (the Ministry) to improve the chances of educational success of one cohort of participating students, and better their future life opportunities.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Transitions
Child Youth and Family Residential Schools - November 2016
Published: 28 Nov 2016
ERO evaluated the quality of education at the Child Youth and Family (CYF) residential schools. CYF residential schools provide education for young people in Youth Justice and Care and Protection services.
- Audience:
- Academics
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
Communities of Learning Kāhui Ako - Collaboration to Improve Learner Outcomes
Published: 25 Jan 2017
This publication is designed to support Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako by bringing together research findings about effective collaboration in education communities. It is supported by the publication Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako: working towards collaborative practice.
- Audience:
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Communities of Learning | Kāhui ako
- Collaboration to improve learner outcomes
- Pasifika
- Special education
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)
Commentary on ERO’s evaluation indicators for early childhood services with a focus on infants and toddlers
Published: 24 May 2021
In a scan of the current landscape, Cooper highlights the increasing participation of infants and toddlers in early learning settings, ongoing concerns about the quality of provision for infants and toddlers, and a reported lack of cultural responsiveness in many settings.
- Audience:
- Academics
- Content type:
- Basic page
Evaluation indicators for ECE reviews: ERO’s conceptual framework: Ngā Pou Here
Published: 20 May 2021
In this paper Glasgow brings a Pacific voice to the debate about how the indicators should be revised. She argues that the care and education of young children has become infused with western, middle- class values and ideologies, institutionalised, normative, and separated from relationships and contexts. Following widespread consultation there was an expectation that Te Whāriki (1996) would directly speak to the needs of Pacific peoples, but this did not happen.
- Audience:
- Academics
- Content type:
- Basic page
Working together: How teacher aides can have the most impact
Published: 30 Nov 2022
Teacher aides in Aotearoa New Zealand have a wide range of valued roles and responsibilities. We know that they can enhance learner outcomes by drawing on positive relationships, good training, collaborative practices, and cultural expertise. This report looks at what good teacher aide practice and support looks like and sets out four key areas of teacher aide practice that make a difference for learners – as well as what schools can do to set teacher aides up for success.
- Audience:
- Academics
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre
Tū Toa Hostel - 27 April 2018
Published: 27 Apr 2018
ERO visited Tū Toa Hostel in March 2018.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Basic page
- Topics:
- School hostels
Measuring Change in Education Systems: A Review
Published: 24 Nov 2021
This work explores global best practice for measuring education system change. It considers the variation found between different approaches to measuring education system change, looking particularly at how select individual countries and multilaterals each approach this. This work will also consider what can support countries to monitor education performance.
- Audience:
- Academics
- Education
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre
Sharing the mahi - ERO New Schools Operating Model Newsletter - July 2021 - Issue #5
Published: 08 Jul 2021
- Audience:
- Schools
- Content type:
- Basic page
Nihinihi Whenua – Valuing te reo Māori: Student and whānau aspirations
Published: 15 Sep 2020
This report provides a snapshot of student and whānau perspectives on the teaching of te reo Māori. It follows the June publication of Te Tāmata Huaroa, which provides a review of the current status of te reo Māori in English medium school settings.
- Audience:
- Academics
- Education
- Māori-medium
- Parents
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Te reo Māori
- English-medium
- Māori
- Te Pou Mataaho | Evaluation and Research Māori
Review of ECE evaluation indicators: A leadership focus
Published: 24 May 2021
In her introduction, Thornton says that there is a lack of empirical research focused on effective leadership practice in early childhood education. This mirrors a silence on the subject in the original Te Whāriki (1996). The recent revision of Te Whāriki (2017) provides specific guidance under each of the strands, but this is directed at kaiako leadership rather than positional or professional leadership.
- Audience:
- Academics
- Content type:
- Basic page
The Key Competencies: Realising the Potential of the New Zealand Curriculum
Published: 22 Nov 2019
This is a companion report to Developing Key Competencies in Students Years 1 to 8. It explores current thinking about the importance of building the capabilities of young people. It outlines what the Key Competencies (KCs) are, why they are important, New Zealand’s journey with thinking about the nature and potential uses of KCs, and where this development fits in the international context.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Key competencies
- Curriculum
- Learning
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
A commentary on Ngā Pou Here, ERO’s framework for reviewing early childhood services
Published: 21 May 2021
- Audience:
- Academics
- Content type:
- Basic page
Learning in a Covid-19 World: Supporting Secondary School Engagement
Published: 19 Jan 2021
This report explains strategies for supporting secondary students’ engagement during the Covid‑19 pandemic. These strategies include re-engaging students who present with wellbeing concerns or show signs of disengagement. The report also includes some innovative actions schools used to promote student engagement after the first lockdown in 2020.
- Audience:
- Education
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- COVID-19
- Secondary
- Engagement
- Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre
Te Ara Poutama Indicators of quality for early childhood education: what matters most
Published: 31 Mar 2021
Te Ara Poutama is the core of Ngā Ara Whai Hui: Quality Framework for Evaluation and Improvement in Early Childhood Services. This is the framework for ERO’s approaches to reviewing early childhood services. The indicators, for outcomes and processes, are a central resource for use by ERO and the services themselves in evaluating quality in early childhood education and identifying where improvement is needed.
- Audience:
- Early learning
- Education
- Parents
- Content type:
- Basic page
- Topics:
- Te Ara Poutama
- Ngā Ara Whai Hua
- Indicators
Information for Private Schools: ERO’s new private school report structure
Published: 31 Mar 2021
Information for private schools on the private school report structure. Includes information on criterion for private school registration.
- Audience:
- Education
- Schools
- Content type:
- Basic page
- Topics:
- Registered Private Schools