This report presents the findings from an evaluation carried out in 2006–7 on the Home-school Partnerships: Literacy programme (HSP:L).

This programme was designed to meet a key Ministry of Education’s priority—to strengthen children’s learning and achievement by involving parents in their learning. It began as a Pasifika initiative by engaging parents in their children’s literacy learning by offering sessions in their first language, but has since been broadened to involve all parents ...

The CAS Pilot Project explores the effective pedagogies that are developed through access to CAS technology. This initial report describes the first year of the pilot project. It monitors indicators of effectiveness including changes in teacher practice, student attitudes, and student learning. Aspects of teacher professional development, the impact of the technology on assessment, and issues of sustainability are also evaluated.

The two survey reports are:

• NZCER evaluation of the Regional Education for Enterprise (E4E) Clusters - Report on teacher and lead teacher survey data from Term 4, 2007 
   
• NZCER evaluation of the Regional Education for Enterprise (E4E) Clusters - Report on student survey data from Term 4, 2007

These two mini reports are part of a two-year evaluation of Phase Two of the Regional Education for Enterprise (E4E) Clusters ...

This report is the second in the Education Employment Linkages Research Report series. Its purpose is to document what is already known in the international literature, drawing on the research team’s respective backgrounds in education, sociology, indigenous studies and economics to begin a trans-disciplinary account of key issues for young people making education and employment choices in their transition years from school to work. The report focuses on five themes ...

This is the final report from the Evaluation of the Regional E4E Cluster Initiative, carried out for the Ministry of Education, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and the Tindall Foundation.

The cluster initiative was specifically set up as an innovative space for schools and regions to work collaboratively to set their own goals and test out different approaches to E4E. Our approach was to look across three focuses—cluster focus ...

This report is the fourth in the Competent Children longitudinal study. It describes and analyses the factors which can make a difference to children's scores at age 10.

The study has followed about 500 New Zealand children over five years, and has been able to look at the relationship of earlier experiences and resources to children's current competency levels.

These included early childhood education, family income levels and changes in ...

This is a report on a one-year action research project aimed at encouraging and strengthening children's Samoan language and literacy learning within an a'oga amata. 

It reports on:

•  the beliefs teachers held about language acquisition and early literacy
• the action research process
• the changes that occured in the teachers' pedagogical practice

The main approaches to making pedagogical change to strengthen laguage and literacy learning were:

• developing an environment saturated in the ...

How can we help our children to develop their thinking?

This report outlines an early part of the Competent Children project: an action research study of six months in the lives of 10 children aged between 4 and 5 years. Using recent advances in theory about how children learn to think, researchers worked with the children's parents and early childhood education teachers to help them observe the children and ...

This is one of three reports from NZCER’s second national survey of the early childhood education sector, carried out in late 2007. The others are:

• Provision of ECE services and parental perceptions, and
• Assessment practices and aspects of curriculum in early childhood education.

The survey reports the views of teachers/educators from education and care centres, kindergartens, playcentres, and home-based services, and from a small number of köhanga reo ...

This is the second technical report from the Competent Learners @16 project. It examines the associations between early childhood education experience and young people's competency levels. It finds some aspects of early childhood education still have a statistically visible contribution, 11 years on.

Read more about the Competent children, competent learners project