Shifting balances Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005 This project consisted of two research ouputs: Shifting balances: The impact of level 1 NCEA on teaching of mathematics and science: This research reports on the impact of…
Evaluation of Notebook Valley Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005 The Notebook Valley project provided a range of benefits for the teachers, students, and schools. These benefits included: increases in teacher and student knowledge and confidence…
Analysis of New Zealand Data from the International Adult Literacy Survey Last Publication Date: 01 Jul 2005 The Ministry of Education commissioned Massey University researchers to conduct further analysis of the 1996 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) data to determine whether certain demographic…
A Sociocultural Analysis of Children's Participation in a Mathematical Task Last Publication Date: 01 Jul 2005 This report outlines the findings from a research project that examined videotapes of six groups of four children participating in the NEMP Farmyard Race task. The…
How long do people spend in tertiary education? Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2005 This report looks at how long New Zealand tertiary students study for. It provides interesting new data on the differences in duration, attrition and completion experiences…
Monitoring Teacher Supply 2005 Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2005 The 2005 Monitoring Teacher Supply report provides the Ministry with a snapshot of the number of entitlement staffing vacancies and re-advertised vacancies in schools at the…
Research measures: comparing seven new measures of research performance in tertiary education Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2005 The Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) signals a new, performance-based approach to the allocation of government research funding to tertiary education organisations. The development of the PBRF…
Research measures: comparing the new with the old Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2005 Two historical measures of TEO research performance in the universities - total research outputs and external research income - were found to have a high degree…
An analysis of funding allocations for staff and research degree completions in the Performance-Based Research Fund Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2005 Analysis showed that when the PBRF is fully implemented there will be significant funding attracted by high performing researchers for their TEOs. There is now a significant…
The measurement of the research performance of Tertiary Education Organisations: An analysis of the impact of weightings in the Performance-Based Research Fund Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2005 Analysis of the methodology used to assign quality categories in the 2003 quality evaluation found that the actual level of variation in the research performance of…