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The Effects of Curricula and Assessment on Pedagogical Approaches and on Educational Outcomes

This review analyses the literature on the effects of curricula and assessment on pedagogical approaches and educational outcomes, i.e. student achievement. The review looks at whether…

Monitoring Teacher Supply 2005

The 2005 Monitoring Teacher Supply report provides the Ministry with a snapshot of the number of entitlement staffing vacancies and re-advertised vacancies in schools at the…

An analysis of funding allocations for staff and research degree completions in the Performance-Based Research Fund

Analysis showed that when the PBRF is fully implemented there will be significant funding attracted by high performing researchers for their TEOs.There is now a significant…

Research measures: comparing the new with the old

Two historical measures of TEO research performance in the universities - total research outputs and external research income - were found to have a high degree…

Research measures: comparing seven new measures of research performance in tertiary education

The Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) signals a new, performance-based approach to the allocation of government research funding to tertiary education organisations. The development of the PBRF…

The measurement of the research performance of Tertiary Education Organisations: An analysis of the impact of weightings in the Performance-Based Research Fund

Analysis of the methodology used to assign quality categories in the 2003 quality evaluation found that the actual level of variation in the research performance of…

How long do people spend in tertiary education?

This report looks at how long New Zealand tertiary students study for. It provides interesting new data on the differences in duration, attrition and completion experiences…

Pasifika Achievement: High Level Analysis

This paper focuses on 2004 data with some reference to 2002 and 2003 data. The paper begins with key findings, some background information and a description…

Quality Teaching: How an Evidence-Based Approach Can Help

This is a keynote address to the Australian Curriculum Studies Association Forum "Quality teachers: Quality teaching - Creating a new agenda for action by practitioners, researchers and…

Measuring the worth of e-Learner support systems: Developing a possible benchmarking method for evaluation effectiveness

This report was commissioned by the Ministry and undertaken by the Aotearoa Tertiary Students’ Association. It tested a survey-based method for assessing learner perceptions of the…