He Whakaaro | Education Insights Publications
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This is 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 EDK
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Date Published: Various
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He Whakaaro: The importance of identity, language and culture for ākonga Māori
This paper summarizes the findings of recent research completed by researchers at Kōtātā Insight using the Te Kupenga survey of Māori wellbeing. The research creates a new measure of Māori identity, language and culture, and links Te Kupenga respondents to…
Author(s): Mercy Mhuru, Evidence, Data and Knowledge, Ministry of Education.
Date Published: March 2020
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He Whakaaro: Who exercises school choice? An analysis of out-of-zone-students
Most families in Aotearoa New Zealand have the choice of which school to attend, and many opt to attend schools other than their nearest school. This paper uses linked administrative data from Statistics NZ’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) to examine…
Author(s): Andrew Webber, Evidence, Data and Knowledge, Ministry of Education.
Date Published: March 2020
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He Whakaaro: How does school type impact on student outcomes?
The question of what structure of schooling works best for students in the middle years is the subject of debate, but has been less studied by researchers. This report aims to find whether some school types are better or worse…
Author(s): Marian Loader and Andrew Webber, Ministry of Education.
Date Published: March 2020
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He Whakaaro: School attendance and student wellbeing
Student wellbeing is a key priority of the education system, as well as the government as a whole. The government’s new Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy aims to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a…
Author(s): Alexandra McGregor and Andrew Webber, Education, Data and Knowledge, Ministry of Education.
Date Published: February 2020
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He Whakaaro: What is the relationship between attendance and attainment?
School attendance is the most crucial prerequisite for quality education - students cannot learn if they are not in school. Attendance is included as a key educational measure of wellbeing in the government’s Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy (DPMC, 2019),…
Author(s): Andrew Webber, Education, Data and Knowledge, Ministry of Education.
Date Published: February 2020
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He Whakaaro: What affects how often mothers read books to their pre-schoolers?
This insights paper uses data collected by the 'Growing Up in New Zealand' (GUiNZ) study2 to examine what affects how often New Zealand mothers read books to their pre-school aged children. The GUiNZ study has collected a wide range of…
Author(s): Steve Thomas, Kane Meissel (University of Auckland) and Professor Stuart McNaughton (Chief Education Scientific Advisor) Ministry of Education.
Date Published: December 2019
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He Whakaaro: How can teachers and whanau effectively teach and support reading?
This report is mainly based on major meta-analyses that have been conducted on how to teach reading, as well as some literature reviews and individual studies. Meta-analyses and literature reviews both aim to summarise the research literature on a topic,…
Author(s): Emma Medina and Andrew Webber, Ministry of Education.
Date Published: December 2019
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He Whakaaro: Teacher Demand and Supply Planning Tool
This He Whakaaro | Education Insight paper introduces the Ministry’s new Teacher Demand and Supply Planning Tool and its initial results. The tool is designed to estimate the number of teachers required by schools in the future, and compare this…
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: 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: 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: 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, Education 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, 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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