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 ...

There is much that tertiary institutions can usefully do to assist secondary school students' awareness and understanding of current options and possibilities for study and careers. Here are some pointers.

Paper presented at IIR conference on Marketing Education, Auckland, 27 June 2001.

The term 'progress', as it is usually used, means moving in a particular direction in order to arrive somewhere. In educational contexts, students 'make progress' by passing through—and successfully completing—a series of developmental stages. Step by step, they come to know and be able to do more—and harder—things. This concept of progress is, however, the product of a particular period in history, and a particular set of cultural understandings. This ...

Over the last few years more attention has been paid to evidence-based policy, and to using research data to inform the ongoing development of education practice. This has led to a significant increase in contract research and evaluation designed to contribute to the evidence base, and in policy makers working more closely with researchers to generate new understanding.

Paper presented at the NZCER seminar: Making the most of research in ...