TALIS Starting Strong Data Services
The Teaching and Learning International Survey: Starting Strong is an international study of educators and leaders in early learning.
Starting Strong does not involve children. It is a survey for those who provide education and care for young children, infants, and toddlers across the range of early learning service types in Aotearoa New Zealand.
What is TALIS Starting Strong?
The Starting Strong Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS Starting Strong) provides early learning staff and leaders with an opportunity to share insights on their professional development; pedagogical beliefs and practices; and working conditions, as well as various other leadership, management, and workplace issues such as wellbeing and stress.
Selected early learning services, leaders, and kaiako will take part in TALIS in mid-2024. Participants will be asked to complete an online questionnaire about their experiences and professional beliefs.
In previous cycles in New Zealand, TALIS has surveyed Year 7-10 teachers and their principals. This cycle is the first in which New Zealand’s participants will also include Year 1-6 teachers and the early learning workforce. Read more about TALIS in schools, on the TALIS page.
The results from TALIS provide insights on a wide range of educational matters and the environment in which teachers work. TALIS provides an opportunity for participants to provide input into educational policy analysis and development in key areas.
The survey is not an assessment of knowledge or skills, and the study will not identify individuals or services. It cannot be used to judge quality or outcomes for participating services.
TALIS Starting Strong asks about:
- Participants’ views of important issues in early learning
- Decision-making and leadership
- Aspects of wellbeing including stress, job satisfaction, and feeling valued
- Practices and interactions with children
- Beliefs and priorities for children’s growth and development, including social and emotional learning
- Professional learning and development, including barriers to access and areas of need
- Resourcing and workload
- Communication with whānau
- Collaboration with colleagues
How often is TALIS Starting Strong held?
The study runs approximately 6-yearly. The 2024 cycle of Starting Strong is the first in which Aotearoa New Zealand has taken part, though we participated in TALIS for schools in 2014 and 2017 and are again in 2024.
The next time TALIS and TALIS Starting Strong will run again is 2030.
International Publications from TALIS Starting Strong 2018
June 2021: OECD (2021), Starting Strong: Starting Strong VI: Supporting Meaningful Interactions in Early Childhood Education and Care, OECD Publishing, Paris.
March 2018: OECD (2018), Starting Strong: Engaging Young Children: Lessons from Research about Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care, OECD Publishing, Paris.