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Responding to Covid-19: Supporting Auckland NCEA students - Summary

Published: 25 Aug 2021

This short summary accompanies the full report Responding to the Covid-19 crisis: Supporting Auckland NCEA students. It outlines the key findings from ERO’s evaluation of three Te Kura programmes aimed at supporting Auckland NCEA students following the lockdowns in 2020. This summary briefly lists who these targeted programmes reached, their impact, and lessons for responding to future lockdowns.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre; Whānau; COVID-19; English-medium; Learning; Māori; Māori ākonga / learners; Māori and Pacific learners; National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA); Pasifika; Students; Teaching; Wellbeing

Responding to the Covid-19 crisis: Supporting Auckland NCEA students

Published: 25 Aug 2021

In 2020, Auckland students were particularly affected by Covid-19 and extra support was provided to them. Following this, ERO undertook an evaluation of three Te Kura programmes aimed at supporting Auckland NCEA students. This report outlines the findings of this evaluation - including the reach and impact of the programmes, and lessons for future responses.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre; Whānau; COVID-19; English-medium; Learning; Māori; Māori ākonga / learners; Māori and Pacific learners; National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA); Pasifika; Students; Teaching; Wellbeing

Growing Curiosity Teaching Strategies to Engage Years 5 to 11 Students in Science

Published: 12 Apr 2021

This report shares teaching approaches and strategies for Year 5 to Year 11 that ERO has identified in a range of schools where students were found to be highly engaged in science. This report should be seen as a resource for leaders and teachers looking to strengthen their teaching of science. It looks at Years 5-11 as they are the critical years for science engagement before learners make final choices on whether to continue in science.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Science; Guidance; Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Education For All Our Children: Embracing Diverse Ethnicities

Published: 15 Mar 2023

As New Zealand’s schools become more diverse, there is an exciting opportunity to look again at what we teach and how we teach. Many schools are already changing to embrace diverse ethnicities, but more change will be needed. This report includes options for change to make Aotearoa New Zealand a great place to learn for our children and young people from ethnic communities.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

A Great Start? Education for Disabled Children in Early Childhood

Published: 28 Sep 2022

Quality early childhood education (ECE) affects how well disabled children do at school and in life – from academic achievement and earning potential, to health and wellbeing.

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Ethnic diversity in New Zealand state schools

Published: 01 Jan 2018

This article originally appeared in ERO Insights - Term 1, 2018 and explores how the ethnic diversity of the primary and secondary school roll has changed in New Zealand since 2009, and whether these changes are leading to more diverse or more segregated schools.

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Ethnic diversity; Diversity; Cultural diversity; State schools

Social Workers in Schools

Published: 29 Nov 2019

This ERO qualitative case study report undertaken on behalf of Oranga Tamariki captures the voices of children and their whanau who were recipients of the Social Workers in Schools (SWiS) service. SWiS is a government funded, community social work service provided in most English and Māori medium, decile 1-3 primary and intermediate schools.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Social Workers in Schools (SWiS); Social workers; Primary; Intermediate; Pastoral care; Case study; Resilience; Therapeutic care and education (TEC)

Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Teachers and Principals

Published: 06 Dec 2021

This report looks at the impact of Covid-19 on teachers and principals – including how Covid-19 has impacted enjoyment in work and workload. This report also sets out examples of how schools can prepare for 2022 and what supports will be needed for teachers and principals.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Working together: How teacher aides can have the most impact

Published: 30 Nov 2022

Teacher aides in Aotearoa New Zealand have a wide range of valued roles and responsibilities. We know that they can enhance learner outcomes by drawing on positive relationships, good training, collaborative practices, and cultural expertise. This report looks at what good teacher aide practice and support looks like and sets out four key areas of teacher aide practice that make a difference for learners – as well as what schools can do to set teacher aides up for success.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

ការអប់រំសម្រាប់កូនៗរបស់យើងទាំងអស់គ្នា ៖ ការទទួលយកជាតិសាសន៍ចម្រុះ

Published: 29 Mar 2023

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

He Matawai ki Tua: A scan from beyond

Published: 13 Dec 2021

This summary is based on several research publications and articles sourced from the world-wide web. Most research findings are informed by quantitative and qualitative data. UNESCO and UNICEF publications have been major sources of information but are not the only source.

Audience:: Academics; Education

Content type:: Research

Measuring Change in Education Systems: A Review

Published: 24 Nov 2021

This work explores global best practice for measuring education system change. It considers the variation found between different approaches to measuring education system change, looking particularly at how select individual countries and multilaterals each approach this. This work will also consider what can support countries to monitor education performance.

Audience:: Academics; Education

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Education For All Our Children: Embracing Diverse Cultures - Draft for consultation

Published: 22 Nov 2022

Aotearoa New Zealand is becoming more ethnically diverse, and this is changing quickly. It is critical that education meets the needs of all our children. This report finds that many learners from ethnic communities are succeeding in education but encounter racism, isolation, and lack of cultural understanding. We must achieve significant change if Aotearoa New Zealand is to be a great place to learn for children and young people from ethnic communities.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Te Tāmata Huaroa: Te Reo Māori in English-medium Schooling

Published: 18 Jun 2020

This report gives a snapshot of the current provision of te reo Māori teaching and learning in a representative sample of English-medium primary and secondary schools. The education sector is seen as an important lever in the Government’s Maihi Karauna strategy for language revitalisation.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te reo Māori; English-medium; Language; Māori; Bilingual; Ngā Whanaketanga Rumaki Māori; Te Pou Mataaho | Evaluation and Research Māori

Education For All Our Children: Embracing Diverse Cultures - Summary of draft for consultation

Published: 22 Nov 2022

Aotearoa New Zealand is becoming more ethnically diverse, and this change is fast. It is critical that education meets the needs of all our children and this draft summary for consultation looks at the experiences of learners from ethnic communities, and considers what is needed to better support them in the future.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Learning in a Covid-19 World: Supporting Secondary School Students as They Return to the Classroom

Published: 23 Sep 2021

This short report, aimed at secondary school leaders, sets out how prepared students and schools felt ahead of the Covid-19 lockdown in August and provides recommendations for how schools can support their students as they return to the classroom.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre; COVID-19

Educación para todos nuestros niños: acojamos a las diversas etnias

Published: 29 Mar 2023

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Te Muka Here Tangata – The strand that binds people

Published: 06 May 2021

This case study explores the impact of the 2020 Covid-19 events on Māori learners in English-medium schools, and the response of leaders, schools and communities in the Bay of Plenty and East Coast regions.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Bicultural curriculum; Bilingual; East Coast region; English-medium; Cultural diversity; Māori student achievement; Māori parents and whanau; Schools; School community; Te reo Māori; Whānau; Wellbeing; Māori immersion; Māori; Manaakitanga; Inclusive practices; Inclusion; COVID-19; Principals' performance; School leaders; Teachers | Kaiako; Whanaungatanga

Learning in a Covid-19 World: Supporting Primary School Students as They Return to the Classroom

Published: 23 Sep 2021

This short report, aimed at primary school leaders, sets out how prepared students and schools felt ahead of the Covid-19 lockdown in August and provides recommendations for how schools can support their students as they return to the classroom.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre; COVID-19

The Impact of Covid-19 on Teachers and Principals - Summary

Published: 06 Dec 2021

This short summary of our longer report Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Teachers and Principals looks at the impact of Covid-19 on teachers and principals – including how Covid-19 has impacted enjoyment in work and workload. It also sets out examples of how schools can prepare for 2022 and what supports will be needed for teachers and principals.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre