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…
School planning and reporting in action: The early years of the new framework Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 From 2003, schools have been required to gather data on student learning and engagement, and to use it to set goals for boosting student achievement. This…
The Sustainability Imperative and Urban New Zealand: Promise and Paradox Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 ‘Urban sustainability’ is an increasingly ubiquitous term now featuring in all manner of policy documents and promotional material. As an ambitious attempt to address social, economic…
School governance in New Zealand - How is it working? Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 This paper draws on the findings of a number of national surveys of primary schools conducted by NZCER since 1989, and in secondary schools since 2003.…
Media Analysis of Family Violence Reporting: July-September 2007 Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 This July-September 2007 Quarterly Media Analysis is the first in a series of four reports for the Campaign for Action on Family Violence. The Ministry of Social…
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…
Evaluation of the 2006 Secondary Numeracy Project Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 In 2005, the Secondary Numeracy Pilot Project (SNP) was introduced in a selection of secondary schools to: improve outcomes for students by raising their achievement in mathematics,…
The Iterative Best Evidence Synthesis Programme: Collaborative knowledge building and use across research, policy and practice in education, in CERI Evidence in Education:Linking research and policy. Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2007 This chapter looks at New Zealand's Iterative Best Evidence Synthesis (BES) Programme, which seeks to develop and use bodies of evidence to explain what works and…
