Early Childhood Education Publications
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Evaluation of the implementation of Kei Tua o te Pae Assessment for Learning: Early Childhood Exemplars
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
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Outcomes of early childhood education: Literature review
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
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COI (Centres of Innovation)
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
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An evaluation of ministry-funded Early Childhood Education Professional Development Programmes 2007
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
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Evaluation of promoting Early Childhood Education (ECE) participation project
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
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Calculation of 20 Hours ECE Rates
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
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Parental decision making in relation to the use of early childhood education services
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
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Survey of Income, Expenditure and Fees of Early Childhood Education Providers in New Zealand
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
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2006 Survey of Operational Costs of ECE Services
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
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Quality in parent | whānau-led services
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
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Initial Teacher Education
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
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Status of Teachers Research Project 2002-2006
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
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An evaluation of initial uses and impact of equity funding
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
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Annual Early Childhood Education Census
This is the home page for the Annual Early Childhood Education Census Reports.…
Author(s): Various
Date Published: Various
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Hui Taumata 2005: Māori in early childhood education and schools
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
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The role and potential of ICT in early childhood education: A review of New Zealand and international literature
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
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ECE Teacher-led Workforce Survey 2003
A survey of employees in early childhood education (ECE) teacher-led services.…
Author(s): Ministry of Education
Date Published: 2004
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Pathways: Logic Model
Evaluation of Pathways to the Future will take place over the next 10 years. The Ministry of Education has commissioned a logic model to use in this evaluation. The logic model shows the intended outcomes of the strategic plan and…
Author(s): Collaborative Institute for Research, Consulting and Learning in Evaluation; RMIT University.
Date Published: June 2003
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An evaluation of ministry-funded Early Childhood Education Professional Development Programmes 2003
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
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Pasifika early childhood education
This scoping report was commissioned with the inter-relationship between children’s language acquisition, their cognitive development, and quality teaching in immersion and bilingual settings as the broad topic area for investigation. The report is comprised of three components: the first compiles…
Author(s): Anne Meade, Hellen PuhiPuhi, Susan Foster-Cohen, Anne Meade Associates Wellington.
Date Published: January 2003
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