NLC Meeting June 27th 2011
1. ERO – Alan Wynyard (Review of services manager)
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ERO looking at Year 9/10 Literacy and Numeracy (through to the end of the
year – report due next year)
ERO’s role
o independent govt dept (ie not part of the MoE),
o ERO significant contributor to and high quality evaluation of pretertiary education
o What is evaluation?
 Very interested in the relationship between external and
internal review
 Systematic process, looking at the quality and value of things
in relation to student achievement
 ERO judgements based on:
 What is so?
 Why is it so?
 So what?
 Where next?
 Evidenced based judgements:
 Student achievement data informing teaching and
learning
 How effective are our teaching and learning
programmes – qualitative and quantative data
 Synthesis and analysis of all forms of data – are we
doing what we need to do?
 What’s working well? What do we need to redress?
o Complementary Evaluation
 Complementary between internal and external evaluation –
are they similar?? After the time investment, a distanced view
and questioning of ‘is it working’?
 Research = good match between internal and external review
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 What the school know? Especially focused on the
teaching and learning of students
 How do you know this? A range of data
 Where to next?
 What is good self review?
 Has to ask the right questions? Needs to go further
than just self-reflection; asking the right questions,
getting the right data and planning the next steps.
 School Programme of Review – is there time built in for
self-review (level of documentation? Annual plan –
what we’re doing, what it looks like, self-review + time
frames and personnel) Circular review
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What does self-review in your school look like?
o Documentation
o Who’s doing it?
o Where are the outcomes of self-review
evidenced?? Eg seen in classroom practice –
best examples of this? Can work backwards –
how did we get to this point?
o HOW IS THE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT DATA
BEEN USED??? Smaller picture in classrooms
and bigger picture – ie longitudinal data
o SUCCESS CASE EVALUATION!! This really
worked; why?? Pinning down what made it
work to broaden to other environments.
o Be proactive in coming forward with self-review
Purpose of review
 Improvement in quality of teaching and learning
 accountability
Good practice
 Engagement? Eg attendance, engagement in learning,
learning about learning, learning reviews etc
 Achievement? External measures
 Progress? Hugely important; ok achievement is not where it
needs to be but how are we making a difference?? Normative
versus accelerated progress?
Reports
 Written with a focus on community and parents – shorter and
less descriptive; more big picture; organised around big
questions; no separate page
School reviews
 The big question: HOW EFFECTIVELY DOES THIS SCHOOL’S
CURRICULUM PROMOTE STUDENT LEARNING; ENGAGEMENT,
PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENT? (use this for self-review)
 Look at supporting questions:
 REFER TO POWERPOINT
 Focus on Maori (even those that are achieving are still
behind; the whole cohort seems to be behind so ERO is
interested in helping to move this), Pasifika and Special
Needs
OTHER NATIONAL EVALUATION TOPICS: literacy and maths in Years 9
and 10
Two important documents: Framework for school reviews AND
evaluation indicators for school reviews
Three important questions:
 How is data used by teachers for teaching?
 How is data reported to parents?
 How to students use this information?
 How are leaders using this data to set benchmarks/targets?
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o See www.ero.govt.nz for more info
Framework for School Reviews
o Remain the same so long as its current… look to the website for the
most up to date framework
o No more regular cycle of review – now its 4-5 year review timing for
great schools with good self-review and stability; 3 year return for the
bulk of the schools; 1-2 year return for problem schools is now a
longitudinal process; for significant review = much more involvement
with a school over a couple of years; defines internal and external
review process – trying to build capacity for self-review
o Ask yourself – the questions on page 16 of the framework for schools
Evaluation Indicators
o Broken into Effective Student Learning Dimensions
LOOK OUT FOR GOOD PRACTICE REPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Middle of
next year.