Recommendations
ERO recommends that schools:
- improve formative assessment practice to increase the opportunities students have to be actively involved in assessing their learning, setting goals and identifying their next steps for learning
- continue to use external support for leaders, teachers and trustees to help them understand and work constructively with the standards to raise the achievement of all students in reading, writing and mathematics
- use self review to work with the standards, specifically to review the robustness and dependability of their data in relation to the standards
- review the extent to which their curriculum is responsive to all students, including students identified as needing support to achieve success.
ERO will work with the Ministry of Education to identify individual schools and help them to address some of the challenges and issues highlighted in this report.