Shifting the focus: Achievement information for professional learning Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003 As professionals, teachers must continually update, deepen, and refine their knowledge and skills through professional development. The goal of professional development should be to raise student achievement.…
The sustainability of professional development in literacy Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003 Part 1 Changing and sustaining teachers’ expectations through professional development in literacy This report forms Part One of the report to the participating schools and the Ministry…
Pacific peoples and tertiary education: Issues of participation Last Publication Date: 25 Feb 2002 This research focused on the participation patterns of Pacific students in tertiary education and barriers to their participation. It has three parts: a literature review on…
Literature Review on Pacific Education Issues Last Publication Date: 31 Jan 2002 This Literature Review on Pasifika Education Issues was commissioned to provide valuable information about those issues for Pacific education which have been researched, and those which…
Pathways over the transition to schools: Studies in family literacy practices and effective classroom concepts for Māori and Pasifika children Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 Two outcomes of research and development are described in this report. One is the development of a set of resources suitable for family literacy education. The…
Diagnostic Assessment Tools in Māori Medium Education: A Stocktake and Preliminary Evaluation Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2001 The purpose of the stocktake/evaluation was “to determine which Māori-medium diagnostic tools are currently used in New Zealand to assess student’s achievement in reading, writing and…
Mapping the building of capacity and capability within the educational research community Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2001 This research project focuses on the educational research capacity and capability of the educational community in New Zealand. Commissioned by the Ministry of Education, the study…
Changing Skills for a Changing World: Recommendations for Adult Literacy Policy in Aotearoa/New Zealand Last Publication Date: 01 Oct 2000 This report was researched and written under the sponsorship of the Ian Axford (New Zealand) Fellowships in Public Policy. It summarises major issues facing New Zealand’s…