New Zealand articles and resources
Understanding and managing the range of information that counts as evidence of student learning and achievement can be daunting, and it requires teachers and school leaders to be confident in their assessment literacy.
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Helen Timperley
This timely 10-page article from Professor Helen Timperley is based around research into teacher professional learning. For primary schools it will make a useful contribution to professional conversations around implementing the National Standards, in particular the self-review tools. For secondary schools it provides ways to approach improving students' outcomes.
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Graham Nuthall
This article describes Professor Graham Nuthall’s personal journey as a classroom researcher and the ground-breaking research he conducted with Dr Adrienne Alton-Lee. This research challenged the assumption of many educators, that teaching necessarily equals learning.
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New Zealand school stories
Principal John Bangma, and Deputy Principal Jenny Washington discuss data driven decision making at Mairehau Primary School in Christchurch. In this video on NZ Curriculum online they discuss how data is used to inform teaching and learning.
In these videos from Assessment Online, teachers from Mangere Bridge School in South Auckland talk about sharing assessment data with their students, and how this enables students to develop their own next steps in learning, and to take ownership of the learning.
John Clarke knows that robust data empowers a school to answer the question; "Is the decision we are making going to improve student achievement?"
Arihia Stirling discusses how data improves professional knowledge.
Karen Mose puts learning first.
Tony Howe discusses the strategies used at Opotiki Primary School to improve students’ reading and physical fitness.
Other resources
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Lorna Earl and Stephen Katz
This article discusses the value of data as an important tool for enquiry about your school rather than for judging it. What the data says is important only if we understand why it's telling us what it is and how we can use it to improve student outcomes.
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Members of NCSL’s Leadership Network
This article is relevant to work currently being done in New Zealand, particularly in the light of international assessments that show New Zealand has a wide disparity of student achievement within schools.
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Victoria Bernhardt
This article discusses different types of data collection, including what the author calls 'perceptions data', and ways they need to be handled and analysed to build up a picture of the school community.
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Graham Handscomb and John MacBeath
This article sets out to show schools how to recognise and acknowledge the enquiry and research activity that is already taking place in schools, as well as challenge, and identify areas for further work and development.
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