A fous on employment retention: A meta analysis of three pilot programmes designed to support benefit recipients to take-up and retain employment Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 The barriers associated with employment retention, for people moving off benefit and into paid work, are well documented in the New Zealand and international literature and…
Evaluating the February 1999 Domestic Purposes Benefit and Widows Benefit Reforms: Summary of key findings Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2002 This paper reports on the findings of the evaluation and monitoring strategy that focused on policy reforms for Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB) and Widows Benefit (WB)…
Literature Review on Pacific Education Issues Last Publication Date: 31 Jan 2002 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…
What makes for effective teacher professional development in ICT Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 Since 1999, the Ministry of Education has provided funding for clusters of schools to develop three year ICT professional development programmes for their teachers. 23 clusters…
Picking up the Pace Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 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…
Sustaining school improvement: Ten primary schools' journeys Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 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…
Special Education 2000: Evaluation and monitoring Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 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)…
Pathways over the transition to schools: Studies in family literacy practices and effective classroom concepts for Māori and Pasifika children Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 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…
Raising Children in New Zealand: Exploring Good Outcomes for Young People Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 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 Changing Face of Social Service Volunteering: A Literature Review Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2001 The former Ministry of Social Policy (now the Ministry of Social Development) undertook this literature review as part of its contribution to the International Year of…