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Effective Internal Evaluation for Improvement

Published: 12 Feb 2016

This booklet is useful for any organisation interested in internal evaluation for improvement. This overview of the processes and reasoning involved in effective internal evaluation for improvement draws on a previously published resource Effective School Evaluation – How to do and use internal evaluation for improvement (2015).

Audience:: Early learning; Education; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Evaluation; Internal evaluation

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

Opportunity to learn: a sense of urgency

Published: 04 Sep 2017

In responding to its unique context Invercargill Middle School adopted a range of approaches to accelerate learning. Teachers share a collective commitment to making the most of every learning opportunity.

Audience:: Education; Schools

Content type:: Research

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

Day of the long hard look

Published: 18 Jun 2017

Members of a school strategic change leadership team discuss how a significant drop in the NCEA achievement outcomes of their Māori students, which had been consistently tracking upwards since 2009, created a context that required a critically reflective analysis of both cohort and individual data, alongside a review of the current tracking and monitoring processes and tools.

Audience:: Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Teacher collaboration: professional learning in modern learning environments

Published: 04 Sep 2017

Working together to determine what the collaboration and teamwork looks like on a day-to-day basis has been a critical and continued focus of professional learning and team dialogue at Stonefields School.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

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

Learning to learn

Published: 04 Sep 2017

Clarity of expectations within a supportive environment are key to scaffolding children into the behaviours of effective learners. Those expectations are realised through structures and processes that ensure everyone knows what to do to achieve success.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Learning; Curriculum; Teaching; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua