In response to Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020, the Ministry of Education supported digital access for learners in schools including kura. The Ministry’s Learning From a Pandemic Board commissioned an evaluation to assess the impact of digital access on learners and…

Author(s): Anne Dowden

Date Published: May 2022

This paper reports on what has been learned from the experiences of learners, teachers, schools, families and systems during and after the COVID-19 pandemic response. It provides a summary of key findings from New Zealand and international research, drawn from…

Author(s): Derek Wenmoth

Date Published: March 2022

In this paper, relationships are presented between 15-year-old students’ device use at school and their knowledge and skills across reading, mathematics, and science literacy, which sit alongside digital literacy as foundational areas for success and further learning in the modern…

Author(s): Ryan Sutcliffe, Ministry of Education.

Date Published: August 2021

This report is a literature review looking at equitable digital access to the internet beyond school.…

Author(s): Louise Starkey, Elizabeth Eppel, Allan Sylvester, Rana Daoud and Tho Vo, Victoria University of Wellington. Report for the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: December 2018

This report is a literature review looking at digital technology and the role this plays in education.…

Author(s): Charles Newton, Commissioned by the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: December 2018

Since 1993, research on the use of digital technologies in schools has been undertaken every one to two years. In 2014 a nationwide study of schools was undertaken by Research New Zealand. Researchers of that study reported a lack of…

Author(s): Hineihaea Murphy and Dee Reid, Haemata Limited. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: May 2017

This report outlines findings from an evaluation of the first year of a pilot initiative called the Manaiakalani Digital Teaching Academy (hereafter MDTA). The Manaiakalani Education Trust and the schools within its network are described in Section 2 to provide…

Author(s): Rosemary Hipkins, Jenny Whatman and Jo MacDonald, New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: October 2015 Addendum 2016

This report outlines the results of the TELA Laptops Scheme School Survey for 2013. This survey was conducted in order to determine whether the current products offered by the TELA Scheme are meeting user needs and to examine the quality…

Author(s): Emanuel Kalafatelis, Katrina Magill and Hayley Stirling, Research New Zealand. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: July 2014

This report summarises the findings from the evaluation of the National Education Network Trial Extension (NEN Trial). It focuses on changes to teachers’ practices and the learning experiences of their students as a result of their school’s participation in the…

Author(s): Lorrae Ward (PhD) with the support of Patrick Marentette and Kane Meissel, Cyperus Limited. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: June 2013

The School ICT Infrastructure Survey provides information about the current state of ICT infrastructure in New Zealand schools, how they are currently using technology and what they would find valuable in terms of content and services to enhance teaching and…

Author(s): Schools Infrastructure Group, Ultra-fast Broadband in Schools, Ministry of Education.

Date Published: April 2013

This research project draws together findings from new data and more than 10 years of research on current practice and futures-thinking in education. The report discusses some emerging principles for future learning, how these are currently expressed in New Zealand…

Author(s): Rachel Bolstad and Jane Gilbert, with Sue McDowall, Ally Bull, Sally Boyd and Rosemary Hipkins, New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: June 2012

The Electronic Reading Assessment is a new and innovative component of PISA that acknowledges the increasing relevance of electronic text and recognises its importance as a feature of reading. Those students who took part in the Electronic Reading Assessment (ERA)…

Author(s): Sarah Kirkham, Comparative Education Research Unit, Ministry of Education

Date Published: June 2011

The purpose of this evaluation was to investigate the impacts of the Laptops for Teachers Scheme (TELA) on Years 1 to 3 teachers’ work in the Waikato region.…

Author(s): Bronwen Cowie, Alister Jones and Ann Harlow, with Mike Forret, University of Waikato.

Date Published: July 2010

This e-Learning literature review examined texts across a range of countries, but within a relatively short time frame of the preceding five years. A range of criteria were used to select or eliminate studies for closer review (see Methodology and…

Author(s): Noeline Wright, Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, School of Education, The University of Waikato. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: July 2010

This report presents the findings of a research project on literacy teaching and learning in e-Learning contexts carried out by CORE Education and the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) for the Ministry of Education in 2009.…

Author(s): Sue McDowall for CORE Education and New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: June 2010

The purpose of this evaluation was to investigate the impacts of the Laptops for Teachers Scheme (TELA) on primary schools within the Greater Auckland area.…

Author(s): Associate Professor Judy Parr and Dr. Lorrae Auckland UniServices Limited. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: June 2010

The purpose of this evaluation was to investigate the impacts of the Laptops for Teachers Scheme (TELA) on primary schools within the Otago region.…

Author(s): Keryn Pratt, Kwok-Wing Lai & Ann Trewern with Fiona Concannon & Harriet Sutton. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: May 2010

This report focuses on the effectiveness of the 2006-2008 Information and Communication Technologies Professional Development (ICT PD) School Clusters programmes and supplements previous evaluations of the first six ICT PD programmes. It is the last report of an ongoing evaluation…

Author(s): Selver Sahin and Vince Ham, CORE Education. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: May 2010

The purpose of this evaluation was to investigate the impacts of the Laptops for Teachers Scheme (referred to from here as the TELA scheme) on Years 4 to 6 teachers’ work over a period of three years (2004-2006) and to…

Author(s): Bronwen Cowie, Alister Jones and Ann Harlow with Mike Forret, Clive McGee and Thelma Miller, University of Waikato. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: May 2010

The Ministry of Education has identified the need to further explore the use of Virtual Learning Environments particularly in the context of te reo Māori and kaupapa Māori education. This literature review was sought to provide further understanding for the…

Author(s): Sarah-Jane Tiakiwai and Hans Tiakiwai, Kiore Enterprises Limited. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.

Date Published: March 2010