Course innovation in the senior secondary curriculum Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 This report provides evidence of the extent of course innovation in the senior secondary school, as at July 2007. This evidence has been gathered to inform…
Second Language Acquisition for English-Medium Secondary Te Reo Māori Teachers - Evaluation of the PD Pilot Programme Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 The report is an evaluation of a professional development programme designed to enable English-medium secondary school teachers of te reo Māori to deepen their understanding of…
The Unitec Reading Cluster Evaluation Report Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 A key objective of the Learning for Living professional development initiative was to establish communities of learning. Initially these were geographically arranged communities involving clusters of organisations. This…
Te Reo Māori in the Mainstream Professional Development (PD) Pilot Programmes for Primary School Teachers - An Evaluation Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 In 2005, the Ministry of Education funded four te reo Māori professional development (PD) pilot programmes for mainstream primary school teachers. These pilot programmes were run…
The Collection and Use of Assessment Information in Schools Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 The assessment of student achievement, examining and using information about what students know and can do, is fundamental to effective teaching and learning. This information can…
An Analysis of the Planning, Writing and Editing Skills used in a NEMP Three Stage Writing Task by Year 4 and 8 Students Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 The national monitoring task frameworks developed by the National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP) have two key purposes. They provide a guideline structure for the development and…
Taking a bite of the apple: The implementation of Fruit in Schools | Evaluation Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 This report summarises the findings from the first year of the Healthy Futures evaluation of the Ministry of Health’s Fruit in Schools (FiS) initiative. This report…
To clarify and quantify the so called “decline in fitness levels of today’s youth” Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 This is a 2007 secondary teachers’ sabbatical report. A longitudinal study traces the fitness levels of Year 9, 10, and 11 students at Hillcrest High School…
Evaluation of the Flaxmere Project: When families learn the language of school Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 The Flaxmere Project is about establishing and implementing processes through which the Flaxmere schools collectively engage with the community and caregivers of childre in order to…
Findings From the New Zealand Numeracy Development Projects 2006 Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 The Numeracy Development Projects (NDP) began with a pilot in 2000 and since then have expanded to involve almost all of the primary schools in New…