Raising achievement in primary schools: ALiM and ALL

Raising achievement in primary schools:ALiM and AL…
01 Jun 2014
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Raising achievement in primary schools:ALiM and AL…
01 Jun 2014
Raising achievement in primary schools:ALiM and AL…
01 Jun 2014
pdf

This national report is a companion report to Raising achievement in primary schools

It presents further findings of how some of the primary schools were using the Ministry-funded support projects - Accelerated Learning in Mathematics (ALiM) and Accelerated Learninig in Literacy (ALL) to accelerate progress and raise achievement.

Key Results

ERO found that there were four distinct groups of schools of the 93 that had participated in ALiM and ALL.

  1. Twenty-eight percent of schools were strategic and successful in their actions to accelerate progress and had a whole school focus on underachievement.
  2. Twenty-five percent of schools had strategically trialled a new approach that had successfully accelerated progress for the students involved. They were now developing systems for the whole school to benefit from the trial.
These two groups were effective as the schools responded innovatively to underachievement.
  1. Thirty-four percent of schools were aware of the need to accelerate progress and had invested in one-off initiatives. The schools were not systematic in their practices to respond to underachievement.
  2. Thirteen percent of schools had little sense of urgency to accelerate progress and had a minimal increase in students’ achievement.
These two groups were less effective as the schools responded with more‑of‑the‑same to underachievement.

There was a higher proportion of schools in the second and third groups and a lower proportion in the fourth group, when compared with the overall findings of the main report. The group descriptions reflect the ALiM and ALL influence on schools so are slightly different to those in the main report.

 

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