Research
Our team works collaboratively with researchers and other educators to monitor our impact and to build and share our knowledge.
- Our focus areas ›
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Mātauranga Māori
- Pasifika education
- Digital learning
- Curriculum
- Health education
Our inquiry and evidence-based methodology means that our professional development is firmly grounded in research. We know that we make a difference for leaders, teachers, and students in our professional learning programme.
The Literacy Professional Development Project
Find out about the accelerated progress for students in research reports associated with the Literacy Professional Development Project.
- Introducing the Literacy Professional Development Project: A Learning Project [PDF]
- Evaluation of the Literacy Professional Development Project
- Literacy Professional Development Project: Identifying Effective Teaching and Professional Development Practices for Enhanced Student Learning
- Creating a Chain of Influence: Enabling Reciprocal Learning from Policy to Practice [PDF], Helen S. Timperley; Judy M. Parr. Research Papers in Education, 1470–1146, Volume 24, Issue 2, 2009, pages 135–154
- Effective Facilitation: Understanding and Improving Learning Conversations with Teachers [PDF]
- If the Teacher is Clear About It, The Students Will Get It: Professional Inquiry for Teachers [PDF]
- It's All About the Students [PDF]
Our research partners
We use our networks to research diverse projects. In partnership with the New Zealand Council for Educational Research and Auckland University, we inquire into the outcomes of our work with schools. Our professional development programmes draw strongly on this research and inform future projects. As a result, we know that our work has impact.
A number of important research reports have grown from our professional development work.
- Leading Sustainable Change [Word document], a paper presented at the 21st World Congress on Reading (2006) in Budapest, Hungary
- To the Heart of the Matter: The impact of formative assessment strategies on student self-regulated learning behaviours [PDF] a paper presented to the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) Conference, December 2007
- Is sustainability of educational reform an article of faith or can it be deliberately crafted? [PDF], a paper presented at the International Congress for Schooling Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) Conference, 6–9 January 2008 in Auckland, New Zealand
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