This paper arose out of the presenter's ongoing research into understanding how schools develop and become effective, as well as from their case studies of 10 NZ schools.  It also outlines recent government policy changes and their possible effects on school improvement.

Paper presented at the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) conference, Palmerston North, 5-8 December 2002.

The New Zealand Council for Educational Research provides a Test Advisory Service to its clients.  The service provides information and advice on issues related to assessment to a range of test users from business, educational, health, vocational, and other settings.  Data about this group and their information needs have been gathered only in a fragmentary and ad hoc manner.  The present survey intended to obtain information about the practices and ...

Between June 2002 and June 2003 a Ministry of Education research project was undertaken to investigate current practice and future possibilities for environmental education (EE) policy and practice in New Zealand schools. The research included three components: a review of New Zealand and international literature in EE, a survey of nearly 200 schools involved in EE, and case studies of environmental education practices in eight primary, intermediate and secondary schools ...

Paper prepared for the International Symposium on Creation of Schools for the 21st Century, Tokyo, Japan, 12 March 2002.
Outline of the New Zealand experience

Parental and community involvement in schools - opportunities

and challenges for school change

Paper prepared for the International Symposium on Creation of Schools

for the 21^st Century

Tokyo, 12 March 2002.

Robyn Baker

Director

New Zealand Council for Educational Research ...

The development of teachers’ knowledge and understandings about effective classroom assessment strategies depends on the roles played by initial teacher education (ITE) providers, the employing schools, tutor teachers and other colleagues. For beginning teachers this is learning to satisfy professional, school and systemic needs to improve learning outcomes for children. Many teachers are currently overwhelmed by the demands of classroom assessment. This makes the induction of beginning teachers in classroom ...

This study is a two-year multi-method study of current classroom assessment practices in New Zealand schools.  The first phase has documented assessment practices at Years 5, 7, and 9 in the key areas of English and mathematics.  The second phase will expand on this information through case-studies that document "good assessment practice".

Given the current educational environment and recent NZ government initiatives, it seemed timely to collect base-line data which ...

The paper outlines the range of English resources now in the ARBs and discusses their school-based uses. The particular advantages of the ARBs for school-based assessment and future areas of development within the English banks are also considered.

Paper presented at the 27th annual conference of the International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA), Rio de Janeiro, 6-11 May 2001.

The paper gives an overview of the secondary sector in New Zealand and the reforms of the 1990s, describing the links between educational research, policy, and practice during this time.

Paper presented at the Regional Seminar on Education Research for Policy and Practice, Tokyo, 2-7 October, 2000.

This paper provides an overview of research carried out for a doctoral thesis "Learning to transfer: The distance learner and transfer of learning" (Doyle, 2002). The thesis explored the question of transfer of learning from the perspective of distance students enrolled in a business degree.

Paper presented at the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) conference, Auckland, 29 November to 3 December 2003.

This paper presents an example of a modest educational design innovation (Bereiter and Scardamalia, 2008). Compared with the lifelong literacy project discussed in the first presentation in this symposium (Twist and Hipkins, 2009) this is a short discrete piece of research designed to explore a specific working hypothesis. The focus is on just one of the five key competencies in the New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007). Using language ...