School Improvement Framework
Published: 19 Feb 2024
The School Improvement Framework is for use throughout your school’s evaluation cycle as part of Te Ara Huarau.
- Audience:
- Education
- Schools
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- Basic page
- Topics:
- Schools
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Science in secondary schools: a guide for teachers
Published: 21 Apr 2021
To support leaders and teachers to review and strengthen the science learning opportunities they provide, ERO explored the strategies and approaches that a selection of schools had taken to increase students’ engagement in science. This short guides draws on this work to help secondary school teachers think about how they can support stronger science teaching and learning in their school.
- Audience:
- Education
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Science
- State schools
- Integrated schools
- Schools
Science in primary schools: a guide for leaders
Published: 20 Apr 2021
To support leaders and teachers to review and strengthen the science learning opportunities they provide, ERO explored the strategies and approaches that a selection of schools had taken to increase students’ engagement in science. This short guides draws on this work to help primary school leaders think about how they can support stronger science teaching and learning in their school.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Science
- Integrated schools
- Schools
- State schools
Accelerating student achievement: a resource for schools
Published: 31 May 2013
This resource can be used with the School Evaluation Indicators. It brings together findings from ERO’s recent national reports to outline what works to accelerate progress for Māori students at-risk of underachieving in primary schools. We share approaches schools have taken where progress was accelerated and schools were able to extend their practices to help more students succeed. Innovative schools focus on inequity within their student population, resulting in improved outcomes for Māori students.
- Audience:
- Education
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Achievement
- Resources
- Māori student achievement
- Inquiry
Professional Learning and Development in Schools
Published: 02 Dec 2019
How well were school leaders determining Professional Learning and Development priorities and evaluating its impact?
ERO spoke with school leaders responsible for planning Professional Learning and Development (PLD) and looked at a variety of documents in 242 state or state-integrated schools (excluding kura) reviewed in Terms 3 and 4, 2018. ERO made an overall judgment about how well school leaders were determining PLD priorities and evaluating the impact of PLD.
- Audience:
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Schools
- School leaders
- Literacy
- International education
Wellbeing for success: a resource for schools
Published: 21 Mar 2016
Wellbeing for success: a resource for schools has been developed to help schools evaluate and improve student wellbeing. It highlights the importance of schools promoting the wellbeing of all students as well as the need for systems, people and initiatives to respond to wellbeing concerns for students who need additional support.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Wellbeing
- Mental health
- Resilience
- Whanaungatanga
- Hauora
- Health and Physical Education
- Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour (RTLB)
Raising achievement in secondary schools
Published: 30 Jun 2014
This report documents the findings of ERO’s 2013 evaluation of how well 40 secondary schools analysed and responded to their NCEA data.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Raising achievement
- Secondary
- Māori student achievement
Wellbeing for Young People's Success at Secondary School
Published: 19 Feb 2015
This report presents the findings of ERO’s evaluation of how well 68 secondary schools in Term 1 2014 promoted and responded to student wellbeing.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Wellbeing
- Mental health
- Resilience
- Responding to issues
Wellbeing for Children's Success at Primary School
Published: 19 Feb 2015
This report documents the findings of ERO's evaluation of how well 159 primary schools reviewed in Term 1 2014 promoted and responded to student wellbeing.
- Audience:
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Wellbeing
- Primary
- Mental health
Learning in a Covid-19 World: How school leadership rose to the challenge
Published: 10 Dec 2020
Principals and school leaders have taken on a lot of responsibility during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Education Review Office interviewed principals and board chairs and surveyed 1777 principals across the country from May through to September 2020 to understand how they have responded. This summary highlights how those school leaders rose to the challenge.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- COVID-19
- Leadership
- Schools
- School leaders
A guide for parents and whānau on supporting science in primary school
Published: 12 Apr 2021
Learning science in the primary school years helps children become better problem solvers and critical thinkers. This short guide aims to help parents and whānau of children in primary school to understand why science matters for this age group, know what to expect for science teaching and learning for their child, and think about how they can support their child’s science learning journey.
- Audience:
- Academics
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Science
- Schools
- Guides for parents
Boys' Education: Good Practice in Secondary Schools
Published: 01 Jul 2008
This Education Review Office report provides schools and policy makers with examples of how 10 New Zealand secondary schools successfuly support boys' education. The schools in this study were selected on the basis of their good overall levels of student achievement, previous positive ERO reports and their well-developed pastoral care and support strategies. Five boys' schools and five coeducational schools are used as case studies
- Audience:
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Boys' education
- Pastoral care
Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Schools
Published: 19 Jan 2021
To understand what the challenges of Covid-19 were in 2020 and how schools responded, the Education Review Office spoke to schools and surveyed over 2500 principals and teachers across the country. This report presents our findings on how Covid-19 impacted students, teachers and schools, how schools responded and what they learnt, and the challenges schools expect they might face in future alert level changes.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- COVID-19
- Schools
- Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre
What drives learning in the senior secondary school?
Published: 30 May 2018
This evaluation studies effective practice in schools’ senior curriculum. It contributes to the review being undertaken by the Ministry of Education (the Ministry) of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA). The Ministry-led review focuses on the implementation of NCEA as the national assessment system for the senior years of secondary schooling.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Secondary
- Curriculum
- Pedagogy
- National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA)
- Learning
- Pathways
Promoting Success for Māori Students Schools’ Progress
Published: 10 May 2010
This 2010 report evaluates how schools have promoted success for Māori students since ERO’s previous national report in 2006. The success of Māori students at school is a matter of national interest and priority. ERO has published five national evaluation reports on this topic since 2001. These have identified system-wide issues and recommended steps to be taken by schools and by the Ministry of Education to promote success for Māori in education.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Students
- Māori student achievement
Improving Guidance and Counselling for Students in Secondary Schools
Published: 10 Dec 2013
The Prime Minister’s Youth Mental Health Project aims to improve the mental health of young people aged 12 to 19 years. One initiative of this project is a national evaluation of the current provision of guidance and counselling in schools.
The Education Review Office (ERO) evaluated how well 44 schools and five wharekura provided guidance and counselling for students.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Guidance
- Counselling
- Secondary
- Mental health
Including Students with Special Needs: School Questionnaire Responses
Published: 01 Apr 2012
This report, Including Students with Special Needs: school questionnaire responses presents the findings from a questionnaire completed by schools reviewed in the first two terms of 2011. It is based on schools’ own views of how well they include children with special needs.
- Audience:
- Education
- Māori-medium
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Special education
- High needs
- Inclusive practices
- Questionnaire
- Teacher aides
- Special education needs coordinators (SENCO)
Covid-19: Impact on schools and early childhood services - Interim Report
Published: 28 Aug 2020
ERO has a comprehensive and fast-tracked work programme underway to understand the ongoing impact of Covid-19 on students, services and schools, and on teaching and learning in Aotearoa New Zealand in the English and Māori medium education sectors.
- Audience:
- Early learning
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- COVID-19
- Early childhood services
- Schools
- Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre
Inclusive practices for students with special education needs in schools
Published: 05 Mar 2015
This report examines how well students with special education needs are included in New Zealand schools. The report provides an update on progress towards meeting the Government target that, by the end of 2014, 80 percent of New Zealand schools will be doing a good job and none should be doing a poor job of including and supporting students with disabilities.
- Audience:
- Education
- Māori-medium
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Inclusive practices
- Peer support
- Special education needs coordinators (SENCO)
Evaluation at a glance: What ERO knows about effective schools
Published: 09 Mar 2011
Evaluation at a Glance: What ERO Knows About Effective Schools explores five themes from a cross-section of ERO's evaluations in primary and secondary schools over the past four years:
- A focus on the learner
- Leadership in an inclusive culture
- Effective teaching
- Engagement with parents, whānau and communities
- Coherent policies and practice in a cycle of continuous self review
- Audience:
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Evaluation
- Schools
- Community