1. CEM (NZ) Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring College of Education
The CEM Centre
Dr John Boereboom
Director
Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring (CEM)
University of Canterbury
Christchurch

2. The Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring
Established in 1999
Canterbury University/ Durham University
Annually about 350 NZ schools and students use our services
Evaluates and monitors progress of students, subjects and schools to enable evidence based decision making
4 permanent staff
1 contracted consultant software engineer
Team of 9 casual data entry staff

3. Services provided by CEM
Value added assessment; PIPS, MidYIS7, MidYIS9
Student attitude and engagement surveys SATIS and SAES
Teacher Engagement Survey TAES
School Entrance Tests, entry into Year 7 and 9 (Mathematics, English and Reasoning skills)
School competitions
College of Education Entry assessments
Comprehensive programme of school visits: This year in Auckland, Waikato, Wellington, West Coast, Dunedin

4. Value Added Assessment
Baseline potential
NCEA/ Curriculum
Below Expectation
- ve Value-Added
Beyond Expectation
+ ve Value-Added
As expected
0 Value-Added

5. How can schools use the feedback?
The comprehensive on-line feedback can be used to:
Identify student strengths and weaknesses and set realistic and motivational targets
Identify students requiring support
Identify and share best practice and measure teachers’ influence on the academic growth rates of students
Identify high achievers or under-aspirers
Inform departmental planning and the School Strategic Plan
Determine where curriculum and instruction is having the greatest impact on student learning
Evaluate the effectiveness of programs
Community of Learning data sharing

6. Assessment teaching and research
EDEM684: Assessment, Evaluation and Evidence Based Decision Making.
Conference presentations: ELF
ACER
TERNZ
Journal articles: Educations Review, Teachers matter

7. New Developments Online assessment
School online registration and feedback
College of Education online entrance selection tests
TAES and SAES
The Great KIWI science, English and mathematics competitions for Year 6, 8 and 10
Website development Demo