New Zealand articles and resources
John Hattie outlines eight steps to achieve long-term, system-wide attention on student learning. He calls it a model of collaborative expertise.
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Helen Timperley, Linda Kaser and Judy Halbert
This paper argues for a “sea change in learning settings for young people”. Using a range of examples from New Zealand, Australia and Canada, it makes the case for new approaches to designing learning and teaching and how we might achieve this. It also provides a model for long term PLD within schools.
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New Zealand school stories
Seeing the student behind the data is key to decision-making at Queen Charlotte College. This story looks at how multiple strategies, including unbundling data, have made a difference to improving student outcomes at the school.
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John Clarke knows that robust data empowers a school to answer the question, "Is the decision we are making going to improve student achievement?"
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Tony Howe discusses the strategies used at Opotiki Primary School to improve students’ reading and physical fitness.
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Hollingsworth, Heard and Weldon
Australian research into what and how schools report about student progress and achievement.
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Jay McTighe and Ken O’Connor
This article considers assessment practices that improve both teaching and learning and provides descriptions and examples of summative, diagnostic, and formative assessment.
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This issue of Ideas into Action focuses on the use of data and its potential to transform teaching, learning, and leadership.
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Institute for Effective Education
A guide to help educators identify what sorts of evidence are useful for what, and when.
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Professor Amanda Datnow
In this paper, Amanda Datnow summarises what we have learned about data use practices and the implications of this for equity. It is a useful summary of how data can open or close doors for students depending on how we use it.
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Lorna Earl and Stephen Katz
This paper provides a description of the capacities that leaders need to use data wisely and well in their work.
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