New Zealand Living Standards: Their Measurement and Variation, with an Application To Policy Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003 This paper describes the recently published ELSI scale for measuring living standards. It discusses results with major significance for social policy (including living standard distributions for…
Disability and Employment: Where is Government Policy Heading? Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003 This paper looks at disability and employment policy and the impact it has on the mental health problems. This paper doesn't aim to be an in-depth…
A Study of the Use of School Entry Assessment (SEA) in Schools Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003 School Entry Assessment (SEA) is a tool designed to provide teachers with information about some of the knowledge and skills children have when they first begin…
Pasifika Early Childhood Education Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003 This scoping report was commissioned with the inter-relationship between children’s language acquisition, their cognitive development, and quality teaching in immersion and bilingual settings as the broad…
Shifting the focus: Achievement information for professional learning Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003 As professionals, teachers must continually update, deepen, and refine their knowledge and skills through professional development. The goal of professional development should be to raise student achievement.…
The sustainability of professional development in literacy Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003 Part 1 Changing and sustaining teachers’ expectations through professional development in literacy This report forms Part One of the report to the participating schools and the Ministry…
Towards Building A New Consensus About New Zealand’s Productivity Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003 There is a wide consensus that New Zealand’s productivity has been poor despite the comprehensive market-oriented reforms of the 1980’s. This consensus is based on estimates…
Youth Transitions Report Series 2003 Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003 Government has the goal of having by 2007, all 15 to 19 year olds in work, education or training, or other activities that contribute to their…
Teaching of International Languages in New Zealand Schools in Years 7 and 8: An Evaluation Study Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003 The Ministry of Education provides support to teachers and students of International Languages Education in years 7 and 8 through: - regional advisers of International Languages…
Young people’s experience of recovery and wellbeing following a suicide attempt Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2002 Social Work Now, Issue 23, pages 15-21. Evidence suggests that young people aged 15-24 in New Zealand are at increased risk of death by suicide compared with…
