2007 News Archives

Understanding and enhancing learning communities in tertiary education in science and engineering
Michael Forret, Chris Eames, and Richard Coll
This project aims at enhancing the quality of teaching and learning experiences in tertiary science and engineering education.
Download the full text of the project report [pdf, 2783 KB]
Download the Project result for AUT [pdf, 531 KB]
Download the Project result for CPIT [pdf, 508 KB]
Download the Project result for UOW [pdf, 510 KB]
Download the Project result for WINTEC [pdf, 350 KB]
  

Technology use and the teaching of mathematics in the secondary classroom
Mike Thomas, Jenny Bosley, Alan delos Santos, Rosheen Gray, Ye Yoon Hong, and Jared Loh
Develops protocols for improving mathematics learning through the integration of technology into teaching.
Download the full text of the project report [pdf, 1650 KB]
  

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).
Read the list of 2007 grants
    

Effective teaching in different cultural contexts: a comparative analysis of language, culture and pedagogy
Tanya Wendt Samu with Leonie Pihama
A collaborative team of Māori, Pasifika and Pakeha researchers and practitioners will conduct a cross-cultural comparative study of instructional policies and practice and student outcomes in three intermediate year 7-8 school contexts where the degree of cultural engagement varies.
Download the full text of the project report [pdf, 1000 KB]
  

Write on: implementing an evidence, and strengths-based whole-school writing programme for secondary students in order to raise achievement
Dr Ruth Boyask and Kathleen Quinlivan, University of Canterbury. Sue Carswell, Aranui High School.
This pilot study investigates possibilities for teacher intervention in the learning and achievement of diverse students in low-decile secondary schools in the context of a whole-school writing programme intended to raise student achievement.
Download the full text of the project report [pdf, 2233 KB]
 

Addressing the needs of transient students: a collaborative approach to enhance teaching and learning in an area school
Dr Jude MacArthur and Dr Nancy Higgins, Donald Beasley Institute, Dunedin
This project emerges out of a request from the principal and teachers involved in earlier research that highlighted childrens’ perspectives on their learning and social lives at school. In a small area school, student transience was observed to complicate the learning and social experiences of some of the students.
Download the summary report [pdf, 68 KB]
Download the full text of the project report [pdf, 1681 KB]

Developing rich mathematical language in Māori immersion classrooms
Tamsin Meaney, University of Otago, with Tony Trinick, Auckland College of Education, and Uenuku Fairhall, Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Koutu
Documents and evaluates the scaffolding and modelling strategies of teachers in a Māori-medium school.
Download the summary report [pdf, 70 KB]
Download the full text of the project report [pdf, 1600 KB]
  

2006 News Archives

Classroom Questioning by Teachers: An Investigation of How Teachers Formulate, Select and Present Questions to Guide Student Learning
Linda Bonne & Ruth Pritchard, Redwood School and Victoria University of Wellington College of Education.
Developing the research capability of a group of teachers to investigate their use of questioning to facilitate students' learning in the context of mathematics.
Download the summary report [pdf, 52 KB]
Download the full text of the project report [pdf, 1044 KB]
  

Investigating responses to diversity in a secondary environment
Lindsey Conner, Christchurch College of Education
Examining how Linwood College is responding to the diversity of its students. The findings from this research will be used to inform future policies and practices to address diversity at Linwood College and has the potential to inform policies and practices for schooling in general.
Download the summary report [pdf, 67 KB]
Download the full text of the project report [pdf, 728 KB]

Early algebraic thinking: links to numeracy 
Chris Linsell, Dunedin College of Education.
Making explicit, the knowledge and strategic thinking of students as they make the transition from arithmetic to algebra.
Download the summary report [pdf, 64 KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 646 KB]

The art of the matter: development in the arts
Deborah Fraser, Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, School of Education, The University of Waikato.
Investigating how the development of ideas in the Arts can be promoted, enhanced and refined in classrooms and in so doing, build knowledge related to Arts educational pedagogy, research and philosophy.
Download the summary report [pdf, 70 KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 3004 KB]

Mathematics enhancement project: professional development research
Associate Professor Bill Barton and Dr Hannah Bartholomew, Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland.
Focussing on the delivery of professional development to secondary mathematics teachers, and on the mathematics classroom as a learning environment.
Download the summary report [pdf, 66 KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 780 KB]

Enhancing mathematics teaching in early childhood education
Maggie Haynes, School of Education, Unitec Institute of Technology.
Conducting collaborative action research with three kindergartens to support them in investigating and improving a problem of teaching and learning related to mathematics and numeracy in their centres.
Download the summary report [pdf, 56 KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 2214 KB]

  
Primary students' and teachers' experiences of collaborative learning online
Patsy-Ann Street, The South Learning Centre.
Identifying how involvement in a collaborative on-line environment affects students’ and teachers’ experiences of learning.
Download the summary report [pdf, 54 KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 1434 KB]

Conceptions of assessment and feedback in secondary school mathematics
Dr Elizabeth Peterson and Earl Irving, University of Auckland.
Developing ways of identifying students’ and teachers’ conceptions of assessment and feedback.
Download the summary report [pdf, 79 KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 1548 KB]
  

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

Whakawhanaungatanga - partnerships in bicultural development in early childhood care and education
Dr Jenny Ritchie and Cheryl Rau, University of Waikato.
They focus on building relationships with whanau Maori as a strategy for implementing bicultural development within early childhood settings.
Download the summary report [pdf, 97KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 989KB]
  

Numeracy Practices and Change
Associate Professor Glenda Anthony and Dr Margaret Walshaw, Department of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education, Massey University.
This multi-faceted collaborative investigation draws upon diverse populations of teachers and students and addresses issues of equity, proficiency, and sustainable practice through the opportunities made available in recent numeracy reforms.
Download the summary report etc
Download the summary report [pdf, 84KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 624KB]
  

2006 TLRI funding round announced
Twelve new educational research projects have been awarded grants under the Teaching & Learning Research Initiative (TLRI). The Initiative has now funded had a total of 55 separate research projects since its inception in 2003. NZCER is contracted to manage the programme on behalf of the Ministry of Education.
Read the list of 2006 grants
Read the Media Release pdf, 172KB]

Enhanced teaching and learning of comprehension in years 5-8: a research/ practice collaboration for Mangere schools.
Professor Stuart McNaughton, Woolf Fisher Research Centre, University of Auckland.
A researcher / practitioner partnership to determine the extent of the challenges for effective teaching of comprehension and to create better teaching methods to meet those challenges.
Download the full report [pdf, 2359 KB]
Download the summary report [pdf, 62 KB]

Great expectations: enhancing learning and strengthening teaching in primary schools with diverse student populations through action research
Dr Mary Hill with other teachers and researchers from six schools, ranging from decile 1-10, in Auckland, Hamilton and Taumarunui, plan to investigate how teaching and learning can be systematically improved.
Read more about this project
Download the summary report [pdf, 71 KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 614 KB]

Effective teacher education practice
This project, led by Valerie Margrain, explores the role that written and post-assessment feedback from lecturers to student teachers plays in the students’ learning and support in distance learning.
Read more about this project
Download the summary report [pdf, 112 KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 790 KB]

A collaborative self-study into the development of critical literacy practices
In this pilot project, led by Susan Sandretto, participants investigate the development and implementation of an enhanced critical literacy focus within everyday guided reading practices in two schools and four classrooms.
Read more about this project
Download the summary report [pdf, 85 KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 2500 KB]

Zeroing in on quality teaching
Christina Harwood's project is aimed at reducing disparities by building teachers' capacities and capabilities with respect to intergrative approaches to curriculum delivery.
Read more about this project
Download the summary report [pdf, 89 KB]
Download the full report (part1) [pdf, 306KB]


Making sense of learning at secondary school: an exploration by teachers with students
Using teachers as researchers and students as active respondents, Ruth Kane's project examines ways in which students' learning processes are shaped by what happens in secondary school classrooms.
Read more about this project
Download the summary report [pdf, 86 KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 887 KB]


Investigating teachers' pedagogical approaches in environmental education that promotes students' action competence
Chris Eames project seeks a partnership between regional co-ordinators and teachers to research classroom practice in environmental education. It focuses on the factors that encourage the development of student action competence.
Read more about this project
Download the summary report [pdf, 71 KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 793 KB]


Understanding and enhancing learning communities in tertiary education in science and engineering  
Chris Eames and Mike Forret report on a study that is addressing the nature of tertiary learning communities and seeks to understand, from the perspective of participants, what it means to teach and learn in tertiary science and engineering.
Read more about this project
Download the paper [pdf, 911 KB]


Under three-year olds in kindergarten: children's experiences and teachers' practices.
Dr Judith Duncan, Children's Issues Centre, University of Otago, in conjunction with Dr Carmen Dalli, School of Education, Victoria University.
This project aims to investigate the experiences of two-year olds in four kindergartens to assist teachers in their planning and assessment practices.
Download the paper [pdf, 692 KB]
Download the summary report [pdf, 84 KB]
Download the full report part 1 [pdf, 19,469 KB]
Download the full report part 2 [pdf, 251 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 Minister's media releases
Read the background paper on the TLRI [pdf file, 32 KB]  

Narratives of beginning Māori teachers
    
Paora Stucki looks at beginning teachers, particularly Maori, who find the reality of "real" teaching overwhelming. This research aims to identify the forces that shape the ways beginning Maori teachers negotiate this first year, signalling ways to support beginning Maori teachers..
Read more about this project
Download the summary report [pdf, 88 KB]
Download the full report [pdf, 593 KB]

Improving outcomes for first-year tertiary students
     
This project, by Nick Zepke (Massey University) and twelve other researchers, looks at how tertiary institutions can more effectively meet the needs of diverse first-year students so that they are encouraged to stay and complete their studies.
Read more about this project
    
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
Download the 2 MERGA papers 

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"
Read more about this project
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 the Minister's media releases
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]

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