Reading recovery is a home grown success story, yet fewer schools are opting to offer it than in the past. Sue McDowall argues that there is still astrong case for schools adopting it.

The full journal article published in
New Zealand Education Review 12 (48), 2007, p8.

This paper gives an overview of the secondary sector in New Zealand and its educational reforms of the 1990s. 

This sets the context to describe links between educational research, policy, and practice during this time.  It is argued that much of the research over the past decade has been small-scale and short-term and while this has served the immediate policy agenda it has provided only fragmentary evidence to inform longer-term goals such ...

Searching informational text involves use of text characteristics and task factors. 

• Text characteristics include signalling devices (e.g., headings, subheadings, titles), typography (e.g., fonts, boldface or italic text), and structural features (e.g., organisation, graphics, paragraphing). 
• Task conditions depend on how explicitly or implicitly search requirements have been stated and on whether the search problem involves a single, multiple, or complex formulation. 

Research into young adolescent students' use of text characteristics to ...

Journal article on how schools are implementing the new "Planning and reporting" (PAR) requirement, and how it is impacting on student learning.  

The PAR study explores principals' and teachers' views on how understanding and attitudes towards data gathering and use have shifted considerably in schools in the last three years.

The full journal article published in:
New Zealand Principal, 22 (2), 2007. p. 11-12

This journal article describes research findings linking early childhood staff qualifications and training with the quality of early childhood education.

It outlines current and future policy requirements for employment of registered teachers in kindergartens and education and care centres, and provides evidence that most education and care centres will be able to meet future requirements.

This evidence is contrary to some recent publicity asserting that hundreds of these centres will ...

Educational research should both inform policy and practice and be forward looking, anticipating the future questions of policymakers, teachers and the community. 

This article uses one research organisation, the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER), as a case study to illustrate possible strategies for promoting research through utilising and building upon research-policymaking and research-practice linkages.  It highlights some of the issues, opportunities, and risks for research resulting from the demand ...

Evidence from the longitudinal Competent Children project is provided which shows the continuing contribution of early childhood education to children's competencies at age 10.  Among the New Zealand sample, children had higher average scores if they had 3 or more years of early childhood education in general.  The quality of their final early childhood education centre, particularly related to teacher-child interaction, also continued to show enduring associations with children's performance.  ...

This article analyses school funding trends in New Zealand since the 1989 decentralisation of education administration to school level. It looks at the extent to which school funding became based on formulae linked to student numbers and characteristics. It concludes that by 1998, New Zealand could be seen as having a quasi-voucher system.

The full journal article is published in:
New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 34 (1), 1998. p ...

The Assessment Resource Banks (ARBs) are computerised banks of assessment material that are available on the Internet.  They are linked to the current New Zealand curriculum statements in mathematics, science, and English.  This paper introduces the ARBs.  It is followed by a description of the diagnostic potential of the ARBs.  The final part is an interactive discussion of the diagnostic dimension of a selection of resources from the mathematics ARB ...

There is growing recognition of the importance of helping children to develop an ability to think about biological and environmental issues in terms of systems interactions and impacts.

Several progressions have been published that suggest how their conceptual understandings may develop over time. However these are not necessarily as informative for teachers as for researchers or specialist resource developers, nor do they take account of ‘moment in time’ interactions between ...