Educational Outcomes

The Resource Centre contains practical material about good teaching and learning in the tertiary sector. The Resources can come from the Communities and Project Groups on the site. The Resources are high-quality, well-presented, evidence-based, and relevant to New Zealand.

Educational Outcomes includes qualification attainment, soft skills, social benefits to tertiary education, societal engagement, citizenship, and productivity. Also includes employer perceptions of graduates and graduate destinations.

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Improving Workforce Development and Organisation Performance

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Last updated by: ako_admin (Ako Administrator) on 20 April 2012 - 1:30pm
A report on the benefits gained by embedding workplace-based training in the New Zealand health and disability sector.

Exercise & Sport Science as a rigorous science education: A guide for teachers of the discipline

Last updated by: ako_admin (Ako Administrator) on 9 February 2012 - 1:38pm
The purpose of this project was to guide tertiary teachers of Exercise & Sport Science in ways that could improve the rigour of Exercise & Sport Science as a scientific discipline and lead to better learning outcomes for undergraduates.

Indigenous higher education: Māori experience in New Zealand

Last updated by: ako_admin (Ako Administrator) on 1 February 2012 - 3:34pm
Māori involvement in higher education had its origins in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since then there have been progressively higher rates of participation.

Te Whai i Ngā Taumata Atakura: Supporting Māori Achievement in Bachelors Degrees

Last updated by: ako_admin (Ako Administrator) on 1 February 2012 - 8:43am
This study looks at what matters for the success of first-time Māori students studying towards bachelor degrees. The purpose of this study is to build an understanding of how to increase the number of Māori attaining bachelor degrees or higher.

Stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Students’ experience of transition from low-mid decile schools to university

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Last updated by: ako_admin (Ako Administrator) on 1 February 2012 - 7:57am
This report from the Starpath project found that surviving the transition from school to university can have a big impact on whether Māori and Pacific students succeed at tertiary level. The study examined the stumbling blocks that cause so many able students from low-decile schools to struggle once they reach university.