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He Pou Tātaki: How ERO reviews hospital-based education and care services

Published: 31 Mar 2021

This document is the result of a collaborative effort between ERO and representatives from hospital-based education and care services. It will support improved service performance and accountability, and focuses on how well placed hospital-based services are to contribute to children’s learning, and promote their wellbeing.

Audience:: Early learning; Education

Content type:: Basic page

Topics:: Hospital-based education; Evaluation; Ngā Pou Here; Evaluation indicators

School Evaluation Indicators

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.

Audience:: Education; Schools

Content type:: Basic page

Topics:: Evaluation indicators; Indicators

Schools’ Provision for International Students

Published: 28 Feb 2011

The evaluation looked at four aspects of international education (schools' self review, pastoral care, quality of education and social integration) and concluded that most schools were highly effective or generally effective in all four aspects.

Audience:: Education; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: International students; Pastoral care; International education; Evaluation indicators

Science in Years 5 to 8: Capable and Competent Teaching

Published: 01 May 2010

This Education Review Office report provides examples of good practice in science teaching for Years 5 to 8, in 13 New Zealand state schools. The evaluation included intermediate schools, contributing schools, full primary schools and a Years 7 to 15 secondary school.

Audience:: Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Science; Literacy and numeracy; Literacy

Literacy in Early Childhood Services: Good Practice

Published: 01 Nov 2011

The intent of the evaluation was to gain an insight and understanding of literacy teaching and learning in early childhood education. This report complements the ERO national evaluation report, Literacy in Early Childhood: Teaching and Learning, February 2011. It presents examples of good practice from 13 early childhood services, identified during their ERO reviews, which had high quality literacy teaching and learning. ERO revisited these services in Term 4, 2010.

Audience:: Early learning; Education

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Literacy; Good practice; Early Childhood Education (ECE); Writing; Oral literacy

Identity

Published: 04 Sep 2017

Māori educators and a Māori student draw from their own experiences to discuss the concept of identity and the central role schools play in the identity development of Māori students.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Identity; Māori; Equitable outcomes; Evaluation indicators; Culture; Language; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

On your marks ... get set... go! A tale of six schools and the digital technologies curriculum content

Published: 23 Jan 2020

ERO conducted case studies of six schools’ implementation of the digital technologies curriculum content in Term 1, 2019. Schools that had successfully integrated the curriculum had leaders who promoted a growth mindset for teachers and looked to integrate digital technologies into existing curriculum. Timely professional development for teachers and positive community connections also enhanced schools’ ability to integrate the digital technologies curriculum.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: New Zealand Curriculum; Digital Technologies | Hangarau Matihiko; Information and Communications Technology; Literacy

Positive Foundations for Learning: Confident and Competent Children in Early Childhood Services

Published: 30 Oct 2011

This report discusses the areas of strength, and areas for development that ERO found. It also describes the practices of specific service types - Playcentres, kindergartens and education and care services - in supporting children’s social competence, and understanding of appropriate behaviour.

Audience:: Early learning; Parents

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Social and emotional competence; Early Childhood Education (ECE); Regulatory frameworks; Professional capability

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

Learning-centred relationships: reading together

Published: 04 Sep 2017

This school has implemented the Reading Together programme for many years. Leadership sees the value of the programme in building strong learning relationships with family and whanau and supporting emerging literacy.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Reading; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Vocational pathways: authentic and relevant learning

Published: 30 May 2016

ERO evaluated how well 35 secondary schools were using Vocational Pathways. While most schools knew about and were using the pathways, they were not fully realising the initiative’s potential. Vocational Pathways can be a valued part of a school’s curriculum for all students when used as more than just an add-on to careers education or course selection processes.

Audience:: Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Career education; Youth Guarantee Programme; Ongoing education; Social and emotional competence

Student feedback: observing the teacher

Published: 04 Sep 2017

At Otumoetai Intermediate School, Student Learning Leaders learn how to undertake structured classroom observations focused on teaching and learning. The students and staff discuss the process and its impact.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Feedback; Leadership; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Stewardship: working relationships

Published: 04 Sep 2017

At Invercargill Middle School, the way in which school trustees and leaders work together fosters an appreciative and respectful environment that acknowledges the contributions of everyone in the learning community.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Stewardship; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Partnerships between home and community

Published: 04 Sep 2017

This school seeks every opportunity to connect with the groups within its multicultural community to support those groups to connect to one another as well as engage with the school and their children’s learning.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Relationships; Evaluation indicators; Leadership; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Student feedback: promoting teacher learning

Published: 04 Sep 2017

At McAuley High School, leaders and teachers actively model learning behaviour for the students including eliciting student feedback on a regular basis

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Feedback; Professional development; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Leadership for equity and excellence

Published: 04 Sep 2017

The senior leadership team are responsible for specific portfolios and work interdependently to realise the shared vision of equity and excellence for all.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Leadership; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Stewardship: strategic resourcing

Published: 04 Sep 2017

At Manurewa Central School, careful financial management over many years has enabled the provision of high quality facilities and resources that enhance the school environment and learning opportunities available to students and their families and whanau and the community.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Stewardship; Resourcing; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Caring, collaborative, inclusive learning communities

Published: 04 Sep 2017

At Invercargill Middle School, students and teachers contribute to, and work in, a supportive learning environment characterised by manaakitanga and whanaungatanga.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Collaboration; Inclusion; Manaakitanga; Whanaungatanga; Evaluation indicators; Teaching; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Visible professional learning

Published: 04 Sep 2017

At McAuley High School, classroom teacher observations are a frequent occurrence and students report how they regard this as teachers actively modelling learning behaviour.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Professional development; Professional capability; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

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