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Corporate Services

Published: 31 Mar 2021

Ensures our staff have access to tools and information to achieve ERO’s objectives. This team also ensures we meet government expectations in relation to employment and work activities.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Basic page

Review and Improvement Services

Published: 31 Mar 2021

We carry out external evaluations at early childhood services, schools and kura to provide information on their performance and to support improvement for high quality education.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Basic page

Quality in Early Childhood Services

Published: 01 Aug 2010

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 as those that contribute to poor quality. The report provides a good starting point for further discussion for anyone involved in early childhood education including education providers, policy makers and teachers.

Audience:
Early learning
Parents
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Quality
Early childhood services
Regulatory frameworks

How ERO reviews early childhood services

Published: 31 Mar 2021

This section explains what reviews we do and how we review your early childhood service. This includes centre-based, home-based and hospital-based education and care services. It explains our different approaches to reviews Akanuku | Assurance Reviews, Akarangi | Quality Evaluations and Education Reviews.

Audience:
Early learning
Education
Content type:
Basic page
Topics:
Early learning

Use of Equity Funding in Early Childhood Services

Published: 24 Oct 2013

This national report discusses how effectively 147 early childhood services used Equity Funding and the extent to which the Equity Funding objectives of participation and quality in early childhood services were achieved.

We have also published a companion report - Use of Equity Funding in Pacific Early Childhood Services.

Audience:
Early learning
Parents
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Equity funding
Early childhood services
Pacific Early Childhood services

Success for Māori Children in Early Childhood Services

Published: 01 May 2010

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 the challenge for managers and educators in early childhood services. The findings of this evaluation indicate that many services have some way to go in working with parents and whānau and enabling Māori children to become competent and confident learners.

Audience:
Early learning
Parents
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Early childhood services
Evaluation
Bicultural curriculum

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. These services were at different stages in their understanding and associated literacy teaching and learning practices.

Audience:
Early learning
Education
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Literacy
Good practice
Early Childhood Education (ECE)
Writing
Oral literacy

Implementing Self Review in Early Childhood Services

Published: 01 Jan 2009

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 management and educator practice. 

Audience:
Early learning
Māori-medium
Parents
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Early childhood services
Self-review

A Guide for ECE Services on Children Starting School in Groups

Published: 30 May 2022

In Aotearoa, children have usually started school on their fifth birthday. These days, that’s not always the case. Since 2018, schools have had the option of cohort entry, where small groups of children start school together, at particular points during the year. This can change how children transition through an early learning service.

Audience:
Early learning
Education
Content type:
Research

Handbook of contractual obligations and undertakings – early childhood services

Published: 12 Apr 2021

This Handbook covers relevant legislation and requirements that early learning services and kōhanga reo must follow. Our review officers use this Handbook as part of their review. It does not represent the official versions of the Acts, regulations and other requirements. We recommend referring to the full legislation and requirements when needed.

Audience:
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Content type:
Basic page
Topics:
Early learning
Home-based education
Hospital-based education
Kōhanga Reo

Covid-19: Impact on schools and early childhood services - Interim Report

Published: 28 Aug 2020

ERO has a comprehensive and fast-tracked work programme underway to understand the ongoing impact of Covid-19 on students, services and schools, and on teaching and learning in Aotearoa New Zealand in the English and Māori medium education sectors.

Audience:
Early learning
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
COVID-19
Early childhood services
Schools
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Priorities for Children's Learning in Early Childhood Services

Published: 27 May 2013

This national report is one of two reports that present the findings of a 2012 national evaluation about curriculum priorities. 

Audience:
Early learning
Parents
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Early childhood services
Curriculum
Te Whāriki
Māori
Pacific

Use of Equity Funding in Pacific Early Childhood Services

Published: 24 Oct 2013

This national report is about how effectively 15 Pacific early childhood services used Equity Funding to increase Pacific children's participation and support them to develop their language, culture and identity.

We have also published a companion report - Use of Equity Funding in Early Childhood Services.

Audience:
Early learning
Parents
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Equity funding
Pacific Early Childhood services
Pasifika
Low socio-economic communities
Special education
Culture
Language

Shining a Light on Science: Good Practice in Early Childhood Services

Published: 14 Apr 2021

This report is the companion report to Science in the Early Years: Early Childhood and Years 1-4. This report looks at, in more depth, good practice in science teaching and learning in English-Medium early childhood education. It presents examples of good practice of science in the curriculum, from eight services identified during their ERO reviews.

Audience:
Early learning
Education
Parents
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Success for Māori Children in Early Childhood Services: Good Practice

Published: 01 May 2010

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.

Audience:
Early learning
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Early childhood services
Evaluation

Priorities for Childrens Learning in Early Childhood Services: Good Practice

Published: 01 Nov 2013

This good practice report presents examples from five early childhood services where priorities for children’s learning were well considered and reflected on.

Audience:
Early learning
Māori-medium
Parents
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Early childhood services
Good practice
Te Whāriki
Māori
Pacific