A new chapter: How well are the changes to English and maths going? Technical appendix

This technical report outlines ERO’s approach to evaluating the implementation of the refreshed English and maths learning areas. It explains the questions we asked, who we engaged with, how we gathered information, and the methods we used to analyse, synthesise, and validate our findings.

This technical appendix sets out the methodology used for ERO’s review of the implementation of the refreshed English and maths learning areas – A new chapter: How well are the changes to English and maths going? This report, the summary, and good practice guide are free for download from ERO’s Evidence and Insights website: www.evidence.ero.govt.nz

This technical appendix is set out in three parts:

Part 1: Technical Notes – describes how we designed the evaluation implementation of the new learning areas, the method we used, and the sample we achieved 

Part 2: Data collection tools – provides the questionnaires used to survey teachers and leaders, students, and parents and whānau

Part 3: Survey data tables – these are in Excel workbooks and can be downloaded from ERO’s Evidence and Insights website: www.evidence.ero.govt.nz