He Whakaaro: Education Insights Publications
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This is the home page for a series of short, easy to read papers, which look across the range of New Zealand education system evidence. They provide interesting and useful insights and highlight latest findings, new analysis or ways of looking at issues. They will provoke further thought and discussion on key issues such as; student progression and attainment, the factors that support learning and patterns and trends across education.
The series will be useful to policy analysts, people working in the programme and intervention area or frontline educators interested in knowing a little more about education evidence and data and how to use that in their work.
New papers will be available as they are developed. If you have ideas for, or questions about the series, please email: Requests Data and Insights
Author(s): Various
Date Published: Various
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He Whakaaro: New teacher retention in New Zealand schools
This He Whakaaro | Education Insight paper looks at retention of new teachers/kaiako in New Zealand schools and kura.…
Author(s): Ministry of Education
Date Published: October 2019
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He Whakaaro: Teacher turnover in New Zealand schools
This He Whakaaro introduces insights into the levels and trends of regular teacher/kaiako turnover in New Zealand state and state integrated schools and kura.…
Author(s): Ministry of Education
Date Published: October 2019
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He Whakaaro: Transitions of Initial Teacher Education graduates into teaching
This He Whakaaro explores the rate at which graduates completing Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes in New Zealand transition into teaching roles.…
Author(s): Ministry of Education
Date Published: October 2019
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He Whakaaro: Accounting for educational disadvantage
This He Whakaaro introduces insights into the level of socio-economic disadvantage across New Zealand’s schools. It is based on the first iteration of the Equity Index - an emerging methodology the Ministry of Education is developing for identifying individual barriers…
Author(s): Ministry of Education
Date Published: September 2019
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He Whakaaro: What do we know about discrimination in schools?
This report presents a summary of current knowledge regarding discrimination of students in New Zealand schools. It combines previously published research with new analysis undertaken using data from the Youth2000 series of surveys of secondary school students. We find evidence…
Author(s): Andrew Webber and Alexandra McGregor, Evidence, Data and Knowledge, Ministry of Education.
Date Published: September 2019
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He Whakaaro: What developmental resources do our pre-schoolers have approaching the transition to school?
These insights help us understand how children are tracking for further learning and development at school and they indicate some possible areas of concern.…
Author(s): Steve Thomas and Kane Meissel, University of Auckland and Professor Stuart McNaughton, Chief Education Scientific Advisor for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: July 2019
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He Whakaaro: How environmentally aware are New Zealand students?
This He Whakaaro | Education Insight paper uses data from the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to examine the awareness of a range of environmental issues in New Zealand English-medium secondary students and how this has changed in…
Author(s): Ministry of Education
Date Published: March 2019
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He Whakaaro: What can the NMSSA tell us about student progress and achievement?
This He Whakaaro | Education Insight paper highlights findings across the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) from the first cycle of the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA).…
Author(s): Ministry of Education
Date Published: December 2018
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He Whakaaro: Understanding student progress and achievement
This He Whakaaro | Education Insight paper describes why it is important for educators to understand and respond to both progress and achievement to enable children to maximise their potential. It summarises results from a new research dataset compiled by…
Author(s): Ministry of Education
Date Published: May 2018
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