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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…

Special Education 2000: Evaluation and monitoring

In October 1998, a team from Massey University was contracted by the Ministry of Education to provide independent evaluation and monitoring of Special Education 2000 (SE2000)…

Picking up the Pace

This research project delivered concentrated professional development in literacy instruction to groups of early childhood and new entrant teachers in decile one schools in Mangere and…

Pathways over the transition to schools: Studies in family literacy practices and effective classroom concepts for Māori and Pasifika children

Two outcomes of research and development are described in this report. One is the development of a set of resources suitable for family literacy education. The…

The Social Report 2002

The Social Report 2002 Update is the second stage in the programme of social monitoring initiated by The Social Report 2001. It aims to provide up-to-date…

Raising Children in New Zealand: Exploring Good Outcomes for Young People

As part of its family dynamics/family effectiveness research programme, the Ministry of Social Development commissioned research in 2000 to explore the views of families, young people…

The impact of employment policy interventions

This paper estimates the impact of different categories of employment policy interventions on subsequent outcomes for jobseekers. We generate a range of estimates to help us…

Building Strength: Youth Development Literature Review

A review of research on how to achieve good outcomes for young people in their families, peer groups, schools, careers and communities (published in June 2002…

Review of future-focused research on teaching and learning

This Review is based upon information retrieved from the world wide web about recently completed or on-going large-scale international research initiatives which are future-focused and specifically…