This report assesses the extent to which Free ECE may have impacted on Playcentres. Playcentres are not eligible for Free ECE funding, as they are parent-led services. It presents data from a questionnaire sent to a survey of Playcentres, as…

Author(s): Andrew Morrison, Education Inforamtion and Analysis, Ministry of Education.

Date Published: August 2008

This is the second and final report from the stage 1 evaluation of the ECE Strategic Plan. It reports on progress towards the three goals of the Plan and identifies changes that have occurred since baseline data were collected in…

Author(s): Linda Mitchell and Edith Hodgen, Report for the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: August 2008

This report presents findings from the first phase of data collection for the stage 1 evaluation of the ECE Strategic Plan. It describes the localities and services participating in the evaluation and provides a baseline picture of how things were…

Author(s): Linda Mitchell, Arapera Royal Tangaere, Diane Mara, and Cathy Wylie, New Zealand Council of Educational Research and Te Kohanga Reo National Trust Board.

Date Published: August 2008

This report presents findings from an impact evaluation of the 2006 Ministry of Education funded Kei Tua o te Pae professional development programme. In 2006, this programme provided assessment professional development to licensed and chartered early childhood education (ECE) services…

Author(s): David Stuart, Cognition Consulting Limited with Helen Aitken and Kiri Gould, UNITEC Institute of Technology and Anne Meade.

Date Published: June 2008

This literature review was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to provide policy makers with a synthesis of research that analyses the impact of early childhood education (ECE) for children and families.…

Author(s): Linda Mitchell, Cathy Wylie and Margaret Carr, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.

Date Published: May 2008

The Centre of Innovation (COI) Programme is a strategy aimed at improving the quality of early childhood education. It aims to promote a deeper exploration of innovative teaching and learning processes already underway in early childhood services. A limited number…

Author(s): Various

Date Published: Various

The purpose of the evaluation was to evaluate the effectiveness of government funded early childhood education (ECE) professional development in meeting the agreed programme outcome of strengthening teacher, educator, kaiako, faiaoga, faiako and puapi’i capability and quality in practice, in…

Author(s): Sue Cherrington and Deborah Wansbrough, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date Published: August 2007

This report contains the findings from an evaluation of the processes and outcomes of the Promoting Early Childhood Education (ECE) Participation Project. It is abbreviated throughout this report to PPP. The primary goal being to ensure that, “every child has…

Author(s): Robyn Dixon, Dr Deborah Widdowson, Patricia Meagher-Lundberg, Centre for Child and Family Policy Research and Dr Airini and Dr Colleen McMurchy-Pilkington, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland.

Date Published: August 2007

20 Hours ECE funding rates need to fund the full average cost of providing early childhood education in each type of service. This requires information on the cost of provision, and on how that cost varies between types of early

Author(s): Education Information and Analysis, Ministry of Education.

Date Published: March 2007

This report presents the results of a research study that examined parental decision making in relation to the use of Early Childhood Education services.…

Author(s): Jeremy Robertson, Research Division, Ministry of Education.

Date Published: March 2007

This report provides the summary results of the 2006 Survey of Operating Costs for early childhood education (ECE) services.…

Author(s): Education, Information & Analysis, Ministry of Education.

Date Published: January 2007

This is the home page for the survey of Income, Expenditure and Fees of Early Childhood Education Service Providers in New Zealand.…

Author(s): Various

Date Published: Various

The main purpose of this research was to find out more about the contributions parent and whānau-led early childhood education (ECE) services are making to children’s learning, parent knowledge/skills and social support, and community, in order to provide the Ministry…

Author(s): Linda Mitchell, Arapera Royal Tangaere, Diane Mara and Cathy Wylie, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.

Date Published: June 2006

Equity Funding is a small amount of additional funding for early childhood education (ECE) services intended to reduce educational disparities between different groups, reduce barriers to participation for groups underrepresented in ECE, and support ECE services to raise their level…

Author(s): Linda Mitchell, Arapera Royal Tangaere, Diane Mara, Cathy Wylie, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.

Date Published: January 2006

This is the home page for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) publications. Initial Teacher Education enables students to learn to become quality teachers. All programme of Initial Teacher Education include opportunities to learn to teach on practicum, with support. The publications…

Author(s): Various

Date Published: Various

This is the home page for the Status of Teachers Research Project, a joint research project undertaken by the New Zealand Teachers Council and the Ministry of Education inquiring into the status of teachers in New Zealand and implications for…

Author(s): Various

Date Published: Various

This analysis of trends in Māori in early childhood education and schools was commissioned for Hui Taumata 2005.…

Author(s): Siobhan Murray and Amy Galvin, Education Information and Analysis, Ministry of Education. Commissioned for the Hui Taumata Steering Committee.

Date Published: January 2005

A survey of employees in early childhood education (ECE) teacher-led services.…

Author(s): Ministry of Education

Date Published: 2004

This review synthesises recent literature about ICT use in early childhood education (ECE). It looks at the role and potential of ICT to support teaching and learning, professional development, sector capability, administration, infrastructure, and information management and communication.…

Author(s): Rachel Bolstad, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.

Date Published: November 2004

The Ministry of Education commissioned this evaluation to examine three aspects of professional development (PD) in the early childhood education (ECE) sector: describing the current delivery of PD; identifying barriers and success factors for delivery of the PD programmes; and…

Author(s): Michael Gaffney, Children's Issues Centre Dunedin.

Date Published: January 2003