Focus on families: Reinforcing the importance of family Last Publication Date: 01 Oct 2005 This report has helped guide the Families Commission work on families with dependent children. It combined and discussed results of a literature review, focus groups, and other…
Young people and infringement fines Last Publication Date: 01 Oct 2005 The Minister for Courts, the Honourable Rick Barker announced a review of the ‘Infringement System’ in March 2004. The review is being led by the Ministry…
Professional Development in Early Childhood Settings: Best Evidence Synthesis Iteration (BES) Last Publication Date: 01 Oct 2005 This synthesis addresses the question of: “What constitutes quality professional development as it relates to learning opportunities, experiences and outcomes for children within diverse early childhood provisions?”…
Collaborating across Policy, Research and Practice: Knowledge Building for Sustainable Educational Development Last Publication Date: 14 Sep 2005 I have been asked by the organisers of the joint OECD/Netherlands Evidence Based Policy Research [EBPR1] Conference – Linking Evidence to Practice, to focus on the…
Investigative Interviewing - The Literature Last Publication Date: 01 Sep 2005 This review provides an overview of investigative interviewing within policing. It may also be of interest to anyone who uses this type of interviewing on the…
Home ownership - September 2005 Last Publication Date: 01 Sep 2005 This research explored Pacific people's views of the multi-borrower provision of Housing New Zealand's Mortgage Insurance Scheme, known as the Welcome Home Loan.
Risk assessment of recidivism of violent sexual female offenders Last Publication Date: 01 Sep 2005 The Department of Corrections has recognised that women offenders have specific needs, prompting the development of policies on security classification of female offenders (Department of Corrections,…
Reading Achievement in New Zealand in 1990 and 2001: Results from the Trends in IEA's Reading Literacy Study Last Publication Date: 01 Sep 2005 The aim of this report is to present a descriptive summary of similarities and differences between the achievement in reading literacy of New Zealand Year 5…
Underage Gaming Research Last Publication Date: 01 Sep 2005 The Office of Film and Literature Classification and the Censorship Compliance Unit of the Department of Internal Affairs asked UMR Research to survey the game playing…
Measuring Success: Using NEMP to Conduct School-Wide Review and Development Last Publication Date: 01 Sep 2005 Since the early 1990s a key management function in all New Zealand schools has been to review school-wide curriculum programmes for purposes of reporting student achievement…
