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
- Content type:
- Basic page
- Topics:
- Schools
Published: 19 Feb 2024
The School Improvement Framework is for use throughout your school’s evaluation cycle as part of Te Ara Huarau.
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.
Published: 15 Apr 2021
The Education Review Office has commissioned an independent external evaluator to help guide the development of our new approach. Dr Delwyn Goodrick’s evaluation is designed to provide feedback at key phases of the development and implementation process.
Published: 29 Apr 2022
This report represents the final phase in the external evaluation of the initial implementation of the approach with the initial group of 75 schools. The intended audience for this report is ERO senior leadership team. It is intended that this report will be used formatively to consider opportunities for refinement and improvement of the approach.
Published: 15 Apr 2021
Slides that can be used in presenting information about Te Ara Huarau. It covers what has informed this new approach, principles and values, what will the approach look like and what happens next.
Published: 27 May 2021
In this paper, the author describes how the current widespread interest in indicators of education quality is the result of three converging strands: school effectiveness research, school improvement research, and information technology. From the beginning there has been a tension between the use of indicators for accountability and improvement purposes; where the balance is struck significantly influences the indicators themselves, how they are organised in domains, and how they are used in practice.
Published: 28 May 2021
In this paper, Timperley begins by discussing the very limited nature of the research literature relating to the impacts of external reviews, adding that this has done nothing to dampen enthusiasm for them or to slow their spread. Nearly every educational jurisdiction that has an external review system mixes both accountability and improvement purposes, setting up an inherent tension.
Published: 22 Jul 2021
Published: 27 May 2021
In this paper, Robinson discusses the inherent tension between evaluation for accountability and evaluation for improvement. As a means of managing this tension, the links between the two are often kept loose. The downside of this is that the school and external reviewers often end up evaluating different things instead of discussing why their judgments are at variance.
Published: 27 May 2021
In her introduction, Berryman offers a brief critique of the current set of evaluation indicators and their framing. While broadly approving, she expresses concern that the relational and dynamic nature of the Dimension 6 indicators is not made explicit. Even more fundamental, although the document references the Treaty of Waitangi in the Introduction, the wording casts Māori in a recipient role rather than as one of two equals in a partnership.
Published: 14 Sep 2023
A deepening of our evaluation approach for Māori immersion learning in English-medium schools/kura, providing a specialist evaluation perspective and insight to support learner Te reo Māori success.
Published: 09 Aug 2023
Published: 14 Dec 2021
Published: 25 Mar 2022
Published: 31 Mar 2021
This information document is provided to School Hostel Managers prior to their ERO review. It gives information about licensing provisions and what evidence will be gathered during the review.
Published: 30 Jun 2015
The Education Review Office (ERO)'s Strategic Intentions sets out our objectives and how ERO contributes to the Government's priorities for education.
Published: 05 Apr 2023
Published: 30 Jun 2020
The Education Review Office (ERO)'s Strategic Intentions 2020-2024 sets out our objectives and how ERO contributes to the Government's priorities for education.
Published: 04 Mar 2021
The Education Review Office | Te Tari Arotake Mātauranga (ERO) is the New Zealand government’s external evaluation agency that informs and facilitates improvement in early learning services, kōhanga reo, puna kōhungahunga, kura and schools.
Published: 31 Mar 2021
This framework contains information about the process that the Education Review Office (ERO) uses for managing kōhanga reo reviews. This information forms part of ERO’s standard procedures for reviews of kōhanga reo.