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PISA 2009: Pasifika Students Reading Workbook
This workbook examines key findings about the reading performance of New Zealand's Pasifika 15-year-olds from the Programme for International Student Assessment 2009 (PISA 2009) and explores their implications. In New Zealand, PISA was administered in English only. The purpose of…
Author(s): Maree Telford and Ruth Tuomu'a, Research, Ministry of Education.
Date Published: November 2013
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PISA 2009: Māori Students Reading Workbook
This workbook provides some key findings about our Māori 15-year-olds who are in English learning settings (PISA was not administered in te reo Māori) based on the Programme for International Student Assessment 2009 (PISA 2009). To support school leaders and…
Author(s): Maree Telford and Lynette Bradnam, Research, Ministry of Education.
Date Published: November 2013
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PISA 2009: Reading to Learn: New Zealand 15-year-olds' reading habits, learning approaches and experiences of teaching practices
This report investigates the reading habits and learning approaches examined in PISA 2009, with a focus on gender and a particular emphasis on boys. It also briefly examines the attitudes of 15-year-olds' parents/whānau to reading, and their (or someone else…
Author(s): Maree Telford, Research Division, Ministry of Education.
Date Published: March 2013
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PISA 2009: Reading Workbook
This workbook examines key findings on New Zealand 15-year-old students' reading performance from the Programme for International Student Assessment 2009 (PISA 2009) and explores their implications.…
Author(s): Maree Telford, Research Division, Ministry of Education.
Date Published: March 2013
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Secondary Literacy
National and international evidence suggests that in many education systems, including New Zealand, large numbers of students graduate from or leave school without the levels of literacy and language knowledge and skills needed for successful 21st century living. The education…
Author(s): Woolf Fisher Research Centre, University of Auckland.
Date Published: March 2013
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Evaluation of literacy and mathematics additional learning programmes for students 2011
This research report outlines the findings of an evaluation of the Literacy and Mathematics: Programmes for Students 2011, a Ministry of Education initiative to provide additional teacher time to enable selected schools to organise programmes for students who were assessed…
Author(s): Bronwen Cowie, Clive McGee, Mira Peter, Merilyn Taylor and Junjun Chen, University of Waikato.
Date Published: November 2012
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National Standards: Survey of parents and whānau 2011
This is the third report from the National Standards School Sample Monitoring and Evaluation Project 2010-2013, a three year project on National Standards implementation in a representative sample of schools. Describing results from a survey of parents and whānau, this…
Author(s): Gill Thomas and Jenny Ward, Maths Technology Limited.
Date Published: September 2012
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National Standards: School Sample Monitoring & Evaluation Project 2011
This is the fourth report from the National Standards School Sample Monitoring and Evaluation Project 2010-2013, a three year project on National Standards implementation in a representative sample of schools. Looking at the extent to which National Standards were operating…
Author(s): Jenny Ward and Gill Thomas, Maths Technology Limited
Date Published: September 2012
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National Standards: School Sample Monitoring & Evaluation Project 2010
This is the second report from the National Standards School Sample Monitoring and Evaluation Project 2010-2013, a three year project on National Standards implementation in a representative sample of schools. This report covers implementation in sample schools during 2010 and…
Author(s): Gill Thomas and Jenny Ward, Maths Technology Limited.
Date Published: August 2011
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PISA 2009: Digital readers at age 15 - Results from the PISA 2009 Electronic Reading Assessment
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
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OECD review on evaluation and assessment frameworks for improving school outcomes
In 2010 New Zealand participated in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Review on Evaluation and Assessment Frameworks for Improving School Outcomes. The purpose of the review was to explore how systems of evaluation and assessment can be…
Author(s): Ministry of Education
Date Published: April 2011
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Final report for the evaluation of the Parent Mentoring Project in Manukau
This report presents the findings from an outcome evaluation of the Parent Mentoring Project in Manukau initiated in 2007. It is submitted by Auckland UniServices Limited on behalf of the researchers, Dr. Deborah Widdowson and Assoc. Prof. Robyn Dixon, at…
Author(s): Prepared by Dr Deborah Widdowson, Assoc Prof Robyn Dixon [Centre for Child and Family Research-The University of Auckland] for the Ministry of Education
Date Published: April 2011
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PISA 2009: Our 21st century learners at age 15
This report provides a high level picture of New Zealand’s 15-year-old performance in reading literacy (main focus), mathematical literacy and scientific literacy. It compares New Zealand’s results with other top- and high-performing countries. In July and August 2009 4,643 New…
Author(s): Maree Telford with Steve May, Ministry of Education.
Date Published: December 2010
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National Standards: School Sample Monitoring and Evaluation Project
This is the first report from the National Standards School Sample Monitoring and Evaluation Project 2010-2013, a three year project on National Standards implementation in a representative sample of schools. This report presents results from a mid-2010 survey of 82…
Author(s): Maths Technology Limited. Report for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: October 2010
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NEMP (National Education Monitoring Project)
Project aimed to obtain a broad picture of the achievement and other educational outcomes of representative samples of students in New Zealand schools at Years 4 and 8. Each year, over a four-year period, different areas related to the curriculum…
Author(s): Otago University
Date Published: Various
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Student engagement in the middle years of schooling (years 7-10)
Research undertaken in New Zealand and other countries consistently suggests that student engagement in school and learning decreases during the middle years of schooling. The aim of this literature review, which was undertaken by Evaluation Associates and Massey University on…
Author(s): Robyn Gibbs, Evaluation Associates Ltd and Dr Jenny Poskitt, Massey University. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: June 2010
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PISA 2006: Scientific Literacy - How ready are our 15-year-olds for tomorrow's world?
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), an initiative of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), assesses three key areas of knowledge and skills: reading literacy, mathematical literacy and scientific literacy. It is administered every three years, and…
Author(s): Maree Telford, Research Division, Ministry of Education.
Date Published: March 2010
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PISA 2003: Mathematics skills for tomorrow’s world
This PISA-03 thematic report assesses the ability of New Zealand 15-year-old students to apply their mathematical knowledge, skills and competencies in ways that will help them in the world outside school.…
Author(s): Ministry of Education.
Date Published: November 2009
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PISA 2003: Reading skills for tomorrow’s world
This PISA-03 thematic report assesses the ability of New Zealand 15-year-old students to understand, use and reflect on a written text in order to achieve their own goals, to develop their knowledge and potential and to participate in society.…
Author(s): Ministry of Education
Date Published: November 2009
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Motivation and achievement at secondary school: The relationship between NCEA design and student motivation and achievement (Full Report)
This report encompasses the two final years of a four-year longitudinal investigation of the relationship between student achievement and motivation.…
Author(s): Luanna Meyer, Kirsty Weir, John McClure, Frank Walkey, and Lynanne McKenzie, Jessie Heterington Centre for Educational Research and the School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington. Report for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: July 2009
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