NZCER has been contracted by the Ministry of Education to develop an online tool for schools to support them to explore the extent to which school practices are inclusive of all students. The Inclusive Practices Tools (IPT) will support primary and secondary school leaders to collect data from their school community for the purposes of self-review.
New Zealand schools can now register on the new Wellbeing@school website. Developed by NZCER on contract for the MInistry of Education, the website provides schools with a number of tools to help them build a caring and safe school climate that deters bullying. The website and tools are part of the Ministry of Education’s Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) action plan.
Recent research outputs for: Student health and wellbeing
Sally Robertson, Sally Boyd, Rachel Dingle and Katrina Taupo
Travellers is an early intervention programme run by Skylight for students (generally in Year 9) in New Zealand secondary schools.In order to build on existing studies on Travellers, Skylight commissioned the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) to conduct an external evaluation that explored the short- and medium-term outcomes for the young people who took part in this programme in 2008 or 2009. This study
began in April 2011 and finished in January 2012. The overarching evaluation questions were:
At the heart of all new programmes, initiatives, policies or curriculum documents designed for school settings is an attempt to change some aspect of school practice. Therefore, an understanding of the key messages and lessons learnt about effectively managing change in schools is important background for anyone trying to implement new approaches in school settings.
This paper describes some of the findings from an evaluation of the Fruit in Schools (FiS) initiative. It outlines how the community development and health promotion approaches used by FiS schools offered students increased leadership opportunities. Findings are presented which show how supporting students to lead change can contribute to a range of positive outcomes.
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, USA, April 8-12, 2011.
This paper has two main purposes. The first is to provide an overview of the literature to anchor the development of the Wellbeing@School website and tools in up-to-date evidence and practice. The second purpose is to act as a reference document from which content for the website can be developed.
2011
NZCER Ministry of Education’s Positive Behaviour for Learning
This booklet is a summary of the key ideas from a literature review of New Zealand and international research about ways to create a caring and safe school climate that addresses bullying behaviours. Download is listed below.
Dr. Keren Brooking and Ben Gardiner, with Dr. Sarah Calvert
This report documents the stories of a group of “at risk” young people who have been expelled from mainstream schools and who attend alternative education facilities. It was commissioned by the Ministry of Education and the research carried out in mid-2008.
The report is based on one-to-one interviews with 41 young people in five alternative education centres. Another 9 students were consulted on the research design, questions and analysis.
The students’ stories capture four main aspects of their lives and educational experiences:
This article makes connections between the findings from an evaluation of the Ministry of Health’s Fruit in Schools (FiS) initiative and recent changes in the New Zealand curriculum, in particular in the Health and Physical Education (PE) learning area. It explores the rationale for actively involving students in health promotion at school and describes a range of student-led activities that are connected to the Health and PE learning area.
This final overview report summarises the main findings from Healthy Futures. Healthy Futures is the evaluation of the Ministry of Health’s Fruit in Schools (FiS) initiative. This evaluation was conducted by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research and Health Outcomes International.
In addition to this overview report, a separate document (Boyd & Moss, 2009), summarises the findings from the 2008 case studies, and presents the stories of six FiS schools. A technical report (Dingle et al., 2009), provides more details about the survey analysis and data.
2009
NZCER and Health Outcomes International for the Ministry of Health
Rachel Dingle, Edith Hodgen, Sally Boyd, Jacob Shapleski, Julian King and Michelle Moss
This technical report is one component of the final Healthy Futures 2009 evaluation report. Healthy Futures is the evaluation of the Ministry of Health’s Fruit in Schools (FiS) initiative. The final evaluation report is in three parts. The changing face of Fruit in Schools: 2009 overview report (Boyd, Dingle, Hodgen, King, and Moss, 2009), brings together the main findings from the evaluation. A separate case study report (Boyd and Moss, 2009), summarises the findings from the case study component of Healthy Futures and contains six school case studies completed in 2008.
2009
NZCER and Health Outcomes International for the Ministry of Health
This case study report is one component of the final report from the Healthy Futures study. Healthy Futures is the evaluation of the Ministry of Health’s Fruit in Schools (FiS) initiative. This evaluation was conducted by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research and Health Outcomes International. This case study report summarises the findings from the 2008 case studies, and presents the stories from six FiS schools.
2009
NZCER and Health Outcomes International for the Ministry of Health
