Curriculum Stocktake Report to Minister of Education, Sept 2002

This is a report from the Ministry of Education to the Minister and Associate Minister of Education. IT IS NOT A STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT POLICY. A Curriculum Stocktake project paper was considered by Cabinet early in 2003. The curriculum stocktake report analyses the recent New Zealand curriculum reform experience in terms of: the appropriateness of the New Zealand curriculum and te marautanga o Aotearoa in the current educational, social and economic climate; the purposes of these curricula; and the quality of these curricula in contributing to improved student outcomes, meeting the expectations of a range of stakeholders and against comparable international curricula.

Tables Used in This Report

Table 1:              Timeline for the Publication and Gazetting of the Curriculum Statements and Ngä tauäkï Marautanga mö te Motu

Table 2:              Publication of Curriculum Statements for Languages other than English or Te Reo Mäori

Table 3:              Factors influencing learning (adapted from Walberg, 1991)

Table 4:              Changes to overall achievement in NEMP trend tasks over period of implementation for Science, Technology, Social Studies and Mathematics

Table 5:              Changes in performance of subgroups on NEMP tasks over the period of curriculum implementation

Table 6:              Trend Results for Year 4, 5, 8 and 9 Student Attitude Changes and Student Self-concepts in Science and Technology

Table 7:              Teachers' Responses about whether Teaching from the Curriculum has Resulted in Improved Achievement (McGee, et al., 2002)

Table 8:              Summary Sentences in the Existing Principles of The New Zealand Curriculum Framework

Table 9:              Definitions of proposed essential skills and attitudes associated with each skill

Table 10:              Teacher Perceptions of the Ease of Use of the Curriculum Statements (McGee et al., 2002)

Table 11:               Teacher Perceptions of the Level of their Own Content Knowledge of the Curriculum Statements and Ngä tauäkï Marautanga mö te Motu (McGee et al., 2002)

ISBN Numbers

print version 0-478-18738-6

web version 0-478-18739-4



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