Ngā Ara Whai Hua — Your Go-To-Guide
Published: 02 Aug 2021
Resources to support evaluation for improvement in early childhood services
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- Academics
- Early learning
- Education
- Māori-medium
- Parents
- Schools
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Published: 02 Aug 2021
Resources to support evaluation for improvement in early childhood services
Published: 29 Sep 2021
This resource draws on recent Education Review Office (ERO) national evaluation reports to highlight how schools, both primary and secondary, have been evaluating teaching and learning and then using the findings to improve outcomes for students. ERO found that schools that significantly improved outcomes for students based their priorities for action on the findings from high-quality internal evaluation.
Published: 03 Jun 2022
Education Now provides schools with tools to gather the perspectives of leaders, teachers, students and Whānau
Published: 19 Jul 2018
This report shares strategies and approaches from schools that had contributed to improving achievement by developing genuine learning partnerships with parents. It also includes some simple strategies a few of the schools used to involve parents more in supporting the things children were learning at school.
Published: 13 Apr 2021
Ngā Ara Whai Hua: Quality Framework for Evaluation and Improvement in Early Childhood Services outlines our approach to review and evaluation for accountability and improvement.
Published: 30 Jun 2015
The Education Review Office (ERO)'s Strategic Intentions sets out our objectives and how ERO contributes to the Government's priorities for education.
Published: 29 Jun 2021
This ERO summary report focuses on how education provision at Te Poutama Ārahi Rangatahi supports positive ākonga outcomes
Published: 14 Apr 2021
This is a resource for parents of children who are homeschooled. It indicates the kinds of questions ERO reviewers may ask in a homeschooling review. You may wish to consider these in preparation for the review and use them yourself when you are thinking about how well homeschooling is going for your child.
Published: 06 Aug 2021
Published: 25 Jun 2020
Insights Newsletter from Nicholas Pole, Te Tumu Whakarae mō te Arotake Mātauranga | Chief Executive and Chief Review Officer
Published: 18 Jun 2020
This report gives a snapshot of the current provision of te reo Māori teaching and learning in a representative sample of English-medium primary and secondary schools. The education sector is seen as an important lever in the Government’s Maihi Karauna strategy for language revitalisation.
Published: 01 Jul 2021
Children and young people who are placed in Oranga Tamariki residential care are among the most at risk of poor outcomes later in life. Education can change that. This report looks at the quality of education for students in Oranga Tamariki Care and Protection and Youth Justice residences and how it can be improved.
Published: 31 Mar 2021
The Education Review Office (ERO) first introduced evaluation indicators in 2003, revising them in 2010. This new version reflects a deepening understanding of how schools improve, and the role that evaluation plays in that process. It also reflects a strengthened relationship between ERO’s approaches to evaluation in English-medium and Māori-medium settings. It supports external and internal evaluation of schools.
Published: 25 Jul 2022
The responsibility of keeping tamariki safe while in the care of their school, kura, and early learning service is the responsibility of every adult.
In the education system, ERO plays an integral role in their protection by reviewing and having an oversight of effective child protection policies and processes. We aim to provide schools and early learning services with the ability to quickly identify any gaps in their policies and processes.
Published: 12 Apr 2021
This report shares teaching approaches and strategies for Year 5 to Year 11 that ERO has identified in a range of schools where students were found to be highly engaged in science. This report should be seen as a resource for leaders and teachers looking to strengthen their teaching of science. It looks at Years 5-11 as they are the critical years for science engagement before learners make final choices on whether to continue in science.
Published: 15 Apr 2021
Slides that can be used in presenting information about Te Ara Huarau. It covers what has informed this new approach, principles and values, what will the approach look like and what happens next.
Published: 03 Sep 2021
Published: 10 May 2021
ERO was approached by principals from Kahukura to document and evaluate their community of practice in Christchurch. This report identifies what is working well for this community of practice, areas where they might consider further enhancements, and lessons and insights into practices which could be shared with others.
Published: 23 Nov 2021
Measuring changes to education systems, let alone performance, is complex. With education systems consisting of many moving parts, there are multiple approaches to assessing education system performance across the world, reflecting the reality of this complexity. This summary explores global practice for measuring education system change.
Published: 06 Mar 2018
In July 2015, ERO signed a three year Service Agreement with the Education Council to carry out teacher appraisal audits. This report presents our findings from the 2016-2017 audit.