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A Guide for Parents Sending their Child to a Cohort Entry School

Published: 31 May 2022

This short guide for whānau and parents draws on ERO’s new report, Starting Schools Together: What Do We Know? to provide insights about what cohort entry means for how your child transitions from early learning to a cohort entry school.

Audience:
Education
Parents
Content type:
Research

A Guide for School Boards Considering Cohort Entry

Published: 31 May 2022

This guide for boards draws on findings from ERO’s report Starting School Together: What Do We Know? and provides insights from schools that have changed to cohort entry. 

Audience:
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research

Education for Disabled Learners: From Early Childhood to School - summary

Published: 28 Sep 2022

Receiving a quality education, from early childhood education (ECE) through to secondary school, positively affects how well all children and young people do at school and in life – from academic achievement and earning potential to health and wellbeing. Education is even more critical for disabled learners. When disabled learners receive a quality, inclusive education they are more likely to achieve better outcomes, to complete secondary schooling and to go on to further study and employment.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Education For All Our Children: Embracing Diverse Ethnicities - Summary

Published: 15 Mar 2023

As New Zealand’s schools become more diverse there is an exciting opportunity to look again at what we teach and how we teach. Many schools are already changing to embrace diverse ethnicities, but more change will be needed. This summary of our Long-Term Insights Briefing highlights options for change to make Aotearoa New Zealand a great place to learn for our children and young people from ethnic communities.

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Learning in a Covid-19 World: A guide for supporting Pacific learners

Published: 11 May 2022

ERO’s new report, Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Pacific Learners, goes into detail about the disproportionately negative impact of the pandemic on Pacific learners’ achievement, attendance, mental health, wellbeing, and education pathways. It uses a range of evidence to shine a light on challenges and share successful strategies.

Audience:
Education
Content type:
Research

Contact us

Published: 16 Apr 2021

Contact details for general enquiries and ERO offices.

Audience:
Education
Content type:
Basic page

New Te Ihuwaka report to support culturally responsive teaching in ECE

Published: 10 Feb 2022

Te Ihuwaka's (ERO's Education Evaluation Centre's) latest early childhood education good practice report, published today, looks at how children’s cultures and languages can be reflected in everyday practice, supporting their learning and wellbeing.

Audience:
Early learning
Content type:
News article

New and merging schools

Published: 31 Mar 2021

We review state or state-integrated schools/kura that are new, merged, newly state-integrated or changing their status. These schools will have a Readiness Review and then a New Schools Assurance Review.

Audience:
Education
Schools
Content type:
Basic page

Ongoing impacts of Covid‑19 on schools and learning - Guide for principals

Published: 22 Jun 2023

This guide draws on findings from ERO’s report Long Covid: Ongoing impacts of Covid-19 on schools and learning, providing what we learned from surveying principals, teachers, and learners in 2023.

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Learners contribute to curriculum design

Published: 04 Sep 2017

Engaging in multiple strategies to elicit and respond to student voice ensures that students have direct input into curriculum design.

Audience:
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Improvement
Curriculum
Teaching
Evaluation indicators
Video
Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

The Collection and Use of Assessment Information in Schools

Published: 01 Mar 2007

Knowing what students know and can do is fundamental to effective teaching and students’ learning. Teachers need to assess student achievement to know whether or not their teaching is meeting the learning needs of their students.

In 2006, ERO evaluated how effectively schools collected and used assessment information. This report details the findings of that evaluation and recommends what can be done to make assessment practices in schools more effective.

Audience:
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Assessment
Assessment information

Social Workers in Schools make a difference in and out of the classroom

Published: 17 Apr 2020

This ERO case study is part of a wider research by Oranga Tamariki to assess the benefits of SWiS, a government-funded service provided in most decile 1-3 primary and intermediate schools.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article

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)

COVID-19 (novel coronavirus)

Published: 09 Mar 2020

ERO is now resuming longitudinal (1 to 2 year) reviews but will not be restarting other individual school education reviews and reporting until later in the year. However, we do want to capture the learning and innovation that is happening in the sector at this time.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article

We've changed the way our information is organised on our website

Published: 19 Apr 2021

We’ve made improvements and changes to our website to make it easier for visitors to find the information they need.   

We’ve had to suspend some of our regular publication for a short time. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Publication will resume from 19 April 2021 onwards.

Audience:
Education
Content type:
News article

Summary - Responding to Diverse Cultures: Good Practice in Home-based Early Childhood Services

Published: 31 Jan 2022

This short summary of our longer report Responding to Diverse Cultures: Good Practice in Home-based Early Childhood Services looks at how culturally responsive teaching can be reflected in everyday practice.  This summary highlights key considerations for leaders and kaiako, to inspire growth in culturally responsive teaching.

Audience:
Early learning
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Towards equitable outcomes in secondary schools: Good practice

Published: 29 May 2014

This report presents examples of good practice in student engagement and achievement. The examples come from a sample of secondary schools, rated decile 5 or below with rolls of 200 students or more, who had better outcomes for students than other similar schools. ERO visited seven of these schools to find out the secret to their success.

Audience:
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Secondary
Good practice
Community
Culture
School community