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In this section you'll find ERO's evaluation indicators and frameworks, national evaluations, effective practice reports, resources and guides, corporate publications and guides for parents. Use the search box at the top right or the filters below to find what you're looking for. 

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1. Child Youth and Family Residential Schools

   • Publication Date: 21 September 2010
   • Print version available: No

   This report combines the findings of individual reviews completed for seven schools located in Child Youth and Family residences. These residences cater for adolescents with serious criminal or welfare issues and education is a very important part of their rehabilitation and support.

   https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/child-youth-and-family-residential-schools/

   

2. Working with the National Standards within the New Zealand Curriculum

   • Publication Date: 9 August 2010
   • Print version available: No

   ERO evaluated preparedness to work with the National Standards within The New Zealand Curriculum in 228 schools during Terms 1 and 2, 2010. ERO found that most schools were well prepared or had preparation under way, and in many cases the preparations focused on aligning existing benchmarks and expectations with...

   https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/working-with-the-national-standards-within-the-new-zealand-curriculum/

   

3. Quality in Early Childhood Services

   • Publication Date: 1 August 2010
   • Print version available: No

   Early childhood education has been an important focus for the Education Review Office for over 20 years. This report uses findings from ERO's national evaluations of early childhood education and individual services' education reviews to highlight the factors that contribute to high quality early childhood education and care, as well...

   https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/quality-in-early-childhood-services/

   

4. Including Students with High Needs

   • Publication Date: 30 June 2010
   • Print version available: No

   ERO evaluated how well schools included students with high needs. Approximately three percent of the student population have significant physical, sensory, neurological, psychiatric, behavioural or intellectual impairment. ERO’s evaluation showed that approximately half of the schools in the study demonstrated inclusive practice, while 30 percent had ‘pockets of inclusive practice’...

   https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/including-students-with-high-needs/

   

5. Preparing to Give Effect to the New Zealand Curriculum

   • Publication Date: 1 June 2010
   • Print version available: No

   This is the third in a series of three evaluations of schools’ preparations for giving effect to The New Zealand Curriculum. The three reports are based on evidence gathered by the Education Review Office (ERO) during education reviews conducted from Term 3, 2008 to Term 4, 2009.

   https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/preparing-to-give-effect-to-the-new-zealand-curriculum/

   

6. Promoting Pacific Student Achievement

   • Publication Date: 1 June 2010
   • Print version available: No

   This 2010 report is the second the Education Review Office has published on the educational achievement of Pacific students in New Zealand schools. The evaluation looked at the achievement, engagement and presence in school of Pacific students, and progress made in the three years since the previous report.

   https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/promoting-pacific-student-achievement/

   

7. Science in Years 5 to 8: Capable and Competent Teaching

   • Publication Date: 1 May 2010
   • Print version available: No

   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.

   https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/science-in-years-5-to-8-capable-and-competent-teaching/

   

8. Success for Māori Children in Early Childhood Services

   • Publication Date: 1 May 2010
   • Print version available: No

   This evaluation also raises questions about the links between implementing a bicultural curriculum and reviewing its impact for Māori children. This is the next step for services that already have strong bicultural curriculum. Reflecting on and questioning the extent to which Māori children experience success as learners is part of...

   https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/success-for-maori-children-in-early-childhood-services/

   

9. Success for Māori Children in Early Childhood Services: Good Practice

   • Publication Date: 1 May 2010
   • Print version available: No

   This report complements the national evaluation report, Success for Māori Children in Early Childhood Services, March 2010. It presents examples of good practice from nine early childhood services, identified during their ERO reviews, which had practices that were working for Māori children and their parents and whānau.

   https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/success-for-maori-children-in-early-childhood-services-good-practice/

   

10. Reading and Writing in Years 1 and 2

    • Publication Date: 2 December 2009
    • Print version available: No

    This Education Review Office (ERO) evaluation focused on how effectively reading and writing was taught in the first two years of schooling, and on how well teachers used assessment information to plan and evaluate their teaching.

    https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/reading-and-writing-in-years-1-and-2/

    

11. Managing Professional Learning and Development in Primary Schools

    • Publication Date: 1 May 2009
    • Print version available: No

    This is one of two national reports by the Education Review Office (ERO) on how well schools manage teachers’ PLD. This one about PLD in primary schools and the other is on secondary schools.

    https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/managing-professional-learning-and-development-in-primary-schools/

    

12. Managing Professional Learning and Development in Secondary Schools

    • Publication Date: 1 May 2009
    • Print version available: No

    This is one of two national reports by the Education Review Office (ERO) on how well schools manage teachers’ PLD. This one is about PLD in secondary schools and the other is on primary schools.

    https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/managing-professional-learning-and-development-in-secondary-schools/

    

13. Implementing Self Review in Early Childhood Services

    • Publication Date: 1 January 2009
    • Print version available: No

    The Education Review Office (ERO) undertook a national evaluation of the implementation of self review in 397 services in Terms 1, 2 and 3, 2008. The evaluation focused on how well self review was understood, supported and implemented in each service and the extent to which it led to improved...

    https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/implementing-self-review-in-early-childhood-services/

    

14. Partners in Learning: Good Practice

    • Publication Date: 1 September 2008
    • Print version available: No

    This report complements ERO’s major evaluation, Partners in Learning: Schools’ Engagement with Parents, Whānau and Communities, published in May 2008. It presents case studies of eight schools, identified during ERO reviews, that were successful in engaging with their parents, whānau and the wider community.

    https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/partners-in-learning-good-practice/

    

15. Partners in Learning: Parents' Voices

    • Publication Date: 1 September 2008
    • Print version available: No

    ERO is interested in what happens in the classroom and also in how parents and the community can help in the education of school students. We have therefore evaluated the way schools engage their parents, whānau and community.

    https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/partners-in-learning-parents-voices/

    

16. Provision for Māori Children in Early Childhood Services July 2008

    • Publication Date: 28 July 2008
    • Print version available: No

    This Education Review Office (ERO) report is based on the findings of a study involving 16 early childhood services and one umbrella organisation undertaken as part of each service’s regular education review during Term 4, 2007.

    https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/provision-for-maori-children-in-early-childhood-services-july-2008/

    

17. Boys' Education: Good Practice in Secondary Schools

    • Publication Date: 1 July 2008
    • Print version available: No

    This Education Review Office report provides schools and policy makers with examples of how 10 New Zealand secondary schools successfuly support boys' education. The schools in this study were selected on the basis of their good overall levels of student achievement, previous positive ERO reports and their well-developed pastoral care...

    https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/boys-education-good-practice-in-secondary-schools/

    

18. Schools' Provision for Gifted and Talented Students

    • Publication Date: 1 June 2008
    • Print version available: No

    In 2008 the Education Review Office evaluated schools’ provision for gifted and talented students.

    https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/schools-provision-for-gifted-and-talented-students/

    

19. Schools' Provision for Gifted and Talented Students: Good Practice

    • Publication Date: 1 June 2008
    • Print version available: No

    In 2008 the Education Review Office evaluated schools’ provision for gifted and talented students.

    https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/schools-provision-for-gifted-and-talented-students-good-practice/

    

20. The Quality of Assessment in Early Childhood Education

    • Publication Date: 1 November 2007
    • Print version available: No

    Assessment informs an early childhood service’s programme and educators’ teaching practices. ERO evaluated the quality of assessment in all the early childhood services reviewed in Terms 3 and 4, 2006.

    https://www.ero.govt.nz/publications/the-quality-of-assessment-in-early-childhood-education/