Curriculum Implementation Exploratory Studies II (CIES)
This project was funded by the Ministry of Education and carried out in partnership with the University of Waikato. Completed in early 2011, it built on the first round of Curriculum Implementation Exploratory Studies (CIES), also done with Waikato, which was completed in mid-2009.
Results from CIES I informed and are discussed in the proceedings from NZCER Curriculum Conference Series: The Collaborative Path to Implementation. The 2009 conference proceedings are available from NZCER Press: The Collaborative Path to Implementation.
The final report of CIES I is available at: Curriculum Implementation Exploratory Studies: Final Report.
The overarching research question for CIES II was:
How does the school curriculum respond to the needs of the community and reflect the needs of its students? How is that enacted in the classroom?
Ten specific questions informed our reporting against this overall question. Half the case-study schools from the first round continued in CIES II and we also used an innovative "mediated conversations" workshop methodology, first developed during planning for the NZCER curriculum conference.
Curriculum Implementation Exploratory Studies II (CIES) project outputs:
| Year published | Title | Author(s) | publication type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Curriculum Implementation Exploratory Studies 2: Final report | Rosemary Hipkins, Bronwen Cowie, Sally Boyd, Paul Keown, and Clive McGee | Research report |
| 2011 | Learning to reinvent the school curriculum | Rosemary Hipkins | Conference paper |
| 2011 | The shape of curriculum change | Cowie, B., Hipkins, R., Keown, P., & Boyd, S. | Research report |
| 2011 | The shape of curriculum change | Rosemary Hipkins | Conference presentation |
| 2010 | What it looks like when it’s going well … | Journal article | |
| 2010 | Working with the New Zealand Curriculum principles | Journal article | |
| 2008 | Themes from the curriculum implementation case studies. Milestone report for November 2008 | Rachel Bolstad, Sally Boyd, Ally Bull, Beverley Cooper, Bronwen Cowie, Jenny Ferrier-Kerr, Rosemary Hipkins, Anne Hume, Paul Keown, Clive McGee, Anne Mckim, Judy Moreland, Michele Morrison, Merilyn Taylor, and Russell Yates | Paper |