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Education Review Office. Ko te Tamaiti te Putake o te Kaupapa The Child the Heart of the Matter. Frances Salt Acting Chief Review Officer Graham Stoop Chief Review Officer (From 12 March 2007). To provide external evaluation that contributes to high quality education
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Education Review Office Ko te Tamaiti te Putake o te Kaupapa The Child the Heart of the Matter
Frances Salt Acting Chief Review Officer Graham Stoop Chief Review Officer(From 12 March 2007)
To provide external evaluation that contributes to high quality education for young New Zealanders The Purpose of the Education Review Office
Education Review Office Work • 160 Review Officers (statutory officers) • 10 local ERO offices • 900 school reviews per year • 1200 early childhood reviews per year • 3 yearly cycle of reviews
ERO’s Local Offices Auckland Hamilton Rotorua Wanganui Napier Nelson Wellington Te Uepü-ä-Motu is a national team for reviews of kura kaupapa Mäori and köhanga reo. Moana Pasefika, based in the Auckland Office, provides Pacific review support. Christchurch Dunedin
Chief Review Officer Statutory Powers (S325-328 Ed. Act) Power to • designate Review Officers • enter schools and early childhood centres • initiate reviews and investigations • report (No power to enforce recommendations)
The Review Officer The designated review officer is a trained and qualified professional evaluator
How ERO Evaluates • Manual of Standard Procedures • Code of Ethical Conduct • Evaluation Indicators • Evidence-based judgements Refer to: www.ero.govt.nz
ERO’s Reviews • Education Reviews • Supplementary Reviews • Special Reviews
ERO’s Education Reviews • Participatory • Focus on student achievement • Have improvement as their purpose • Aim to complement each school’s own self-review
ERO’s Focus on Improvement Improvement How well have we done it? How much better can we do it? Compliance Have we done it? NZPF Moot - 2007 11
ERO’s External Evaluation Education Reviews: Three Strands • School Priorities • Areas of National Interest • Compliance Issues
School Priorities Strand • Focused on student achievement • Linked to school self-review information • Usually different from previous review • Decided by ERO after scoping exercise
Areas of National Interest Strand • Evaluations undertaken in all applicable schools nationally for a set period of time • ERO decides on topics and duration of evaluation • Reported in ERO individual reports • Aggregated for ERO national reports NZPF Moot - 2007 14
Areas of National Interest 2007Schools with Years 1 to 8 Term 1 • Achievement of Mäori Students Progress since last ERO review • Achievement of Pacific Students • Student Underachievement • Engaging with Families/Whänau/Communities
Areas of National Interest Proposed Term 2 2007 • Mäori Student Achievement • Pacific Student Achievement • Student Underachievement • Pandemic Planning
Areas of National Interest Proposed Terms 3 & 4 2007 • Pandemic Planning • Provision for Gifted and Talented Students • Environments for Learning
Compliance Issues Strand • Board Assurance Statement (BAS) Attestation of compliance by principal and board chairperson • ERO checks BAS as part of scoping • ERO asks about five specific areas to do with student safety • Student emotional and physical safety • Student attendance • Stand downs and suspensions • Teacher registration NZPF Moot - 2007 18
ERO’s Reports • Schools and early childhood services • National evaluation reports • Cluster reports • Good practice guides
Everybody seems to hateexternal evaluation while nobody trusts internal evaluation - David Nevo
Leadership in External Evaluation • Know about evaluation • Promote the value of external review • Know about ERO’s approach • Acknowledge evaluation anxiety • Contribute your own self-review findings
Leadership in Internal Evaluation • Self review is a requirement for schools • The aim of self review is improvement • Start self review with analysis of student achievement results • Use ERO’s Evaluation Indicators a a basis for self review
Self Review Traps • Over sophisticated techniques • Under sophisticated thinking • Poor implementation of techniques such as interviews • Too much evidence • Too little questioning of assumptions
Who Reviews ERO? • Parliament’s Select Committee • The Minister responsible for ERO • Treasury • The State Services Commission • The Education Sector • The Public
To te konahi tona kite To te hinengaro tona kite To te wairua tona kite The eye, the mind, the soul Each has its own perspective
Frances SaltEducation Review Office frances.salt@ERO.govt.nz www.ERO.govt.nz