News archive

24th November 2009

Funding for projects under the Teaching and Learning Research Initiative

Nine projects have received funding in the Teaching and Learning Research Initiative’s 2009 funding round.
The Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) was set up by the government in 2003 and has funding of $1.9 million in 2009. The fund aims to build knowledge about teaching and learning that will lead to significantly improved outcomes for learners.
Expressions of interests for the 2009 funding round closed in May. A selection panel drew up a shortlist of applicants, who submitted a full proposal. The fund is open to the early childhood, school and post-school sectors.
The New Zealand Council for Educational Research co-ordinates the fund and its associated research programme.
Projects are divided into two different types and into categories, with different funding levels.

Ako Aotearoa and TLRI Colloquium

Ako Aotearoa and TLRI hosted an inaugural colloquium n Auckland on the 7th and 8th September, 2009. he aim  was to support researchers to share their projects ith other project teams as well as to identify early synergies between projects, and to showcase the range of projects recently ompleted or underway. There were 17  presentations
from research teams, eight of which were funded by TLRI. e breadth of research is evident from the programme 

2007 TLRI funding round announced
Six new projects have received funding under the Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI). The fund was established by the government in 2002 to build knowledge about teaching and learning, with the aim of leading to significantly improved outcomes for learners. Projects fall into three categories with different funding bands, from category A ($120k-$400k), category B ($75k-$180k) to category C ($50k-$100k).   

  In the June 2007 issue of 'Partnership':

Read the June 2007 issue of 'Partnership' [pdf, 115 KB]
  

2006 News Archives

2007 Proposals timetable
Funding round for 2007 now closed
Download the information pack [pdf, 255 KB] 

March issue of Partnership newsletter available
View highlights of the March newsletter
  

2005 News Archives

2005 Funding announced
December 2005 
The recipients of funding in the 2005 round of the TLRI have been announced by the Minister of Education.
Read the background paper on the TLRI [pdf file, 32 KB]  

    
Report on teacher researchers  
Researcher Alex Oliver examines the roles of teachers within a number of the current school-based TLRI projects and the teachers’ views and experiences of research and partnership. This project was undertaken on behalf of the TLRI Co-ordination Team, which was interested in finding out about partnerships in practice from the teachers’ perspective so that it could identify ways to support and develop the partnership model within the overall TLRI programme.
Download the summary report [pdf, 110 KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 550 KB]  

Two conference papers from a TLRI numeracy project  
Read more about the 'Numeracy and practices change' project

First TLRI research report available  
The first 2003 funding round final report is now online. It's Pip Neville-Barton and Bill Barton's "The relationship between English language and mathematics learning for non-native speakers"
Download the summary report [pdf, 54 KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 372 KB]  

Teacher Research Symposium
The Educational Leadership Centre University of Waikato is hosting a Teacher Research Symposium.
In association with the Teaching Learning Research Initiative and the Wilf Malcolm Institute for Education Research, on 3 November 2005, 9 - 4.30pm at the School of Education, University of Waikato.

• Be inspired by Keynote Speaker: Professor Lorna Earl – Toronto
• Attend a workshop with a New Zealand researcher
• Hear many presentations from teachers sharing their classroom and school research
• Places limited to 80
• Cost: $40 (inc. GST) Costs have been kept deliberately low through sponsorship to encourage as many teachers to attend as possible.

2004 News Archives

2004 Funding announced
November 2004
The recipients of funding in the 2004 round of the TLRI have been announced by the Minister of Education. Eighteen contracts have been awarded including three three-year contracts.
Read more about the individual projects [pdf file, 18 KB]
Read the background paper on the TLRI [pdf file, 16 KB]

Funding boost announced
12 March 2004
Annual funding for the TLRI has been doubled from $1 million to $2 million.
Education Minister Trevor Mallard, who made the announcement on 12 March, said the new funding will be available from the beginning of 2005 and will support more research, build additional research capability and strengthen the links between researchers and practitioners.

2003 News Archives

First research funding recipients announced
On 19 November 2003, the Minister of Education announced the first 13 projects to be granted funding under the TLRI.
Read the Minister's media release [pdf file, 14KB]
Find out more about the background to the TLRI [pdf file, 14KB]