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Shifting the focus: Achievement information for professional learning

As professionals, teachers must continually update, deepen, and refine their knowledge and skills through professional development. The goal of professional development should be to raise student…

Classroom Assessment Practices in English and Mathematics at Years 5, 7, and 9

This research reports on the assessment practices of teachers in New Zealand classrooms including: the assessment tools and strategies that are being used why particular assessments…

A Study of the Use of School Entry Assessment (SEA) in Schools

School Entry Assessment (SEA) is a tool designed to provide teachers with information about some of the knowledge and skills children have when they first begin…

The sustainability of professional development in literacy

Part 1 Changing and sustaining teachers’ expectations through professional development in literacy This report forms Part One of the report to the participating schools and the…

An evaluation of some programmes for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Auckland: Opportunities, contingencies, and illusions

This research evaluates three educational programmes in the Auckland area for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The programmes evaluated were Autism Action Precision Teaching Centre…

Pacific peoples and tertiary education: Issues of participation

This research focused on the participation patterns of Pacific students in tertiary education and barriers to their participation. It has three parts: a literature review on…

Literature Review on Pacific Education Issues

This Literature Review on Pasifika Education Issues was commissioned to provide valuable information about those issues for Pacific education which have been researched, and those which…

Commonsense, trust and science: How patterns of beliefs and attitudes to science pose challenges for effective communication

Report on an investigation into what the public thinks, knows, and feels about science. The research involved a telephone survey of 800 members of the New Zealand public, and…

Sustaining school improvement: Ten primary schools' journeys

How do New Zealand schools make substantial changes?  Why do schools feel the need to change?  Do they change simply in reaction to outside pressure, or…

PISA 2000: The New Zealand context

The New Zealand context to the PISA 2000 study is the focus of this report, published in August 2002. The performance of sub-groups of 15-year-olds is…