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noted the Minister of Education has agreed with the Minister of Finance that the policy
proposals outlined in recommendation 2 above be charged as a pre-commitment against the
Budget 2023 operating allowance;
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approved the following changes to appropriations to give effect to the policy decisions in
paragraph 2 above, with a corresponding impact on the operation balance and net debt:
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agreed that changes to appropriations for 2022/23 above be included in the 2022/23
Supplementary Estimates and that, in the interim, the increases be met from Imprest Supply;
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agreed that the expenses incurred under paragraph 4 be charged as a pre-commitment
against the Budget 2023 operating allowance
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authorised the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Education jointly to make any
further decisions and associated appropriation changes required to give effect to Cabinet’s
approval of the initiatives in this paper;
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noted that the Minister of Education and Associate Minister of Education intend to make an
announcement on this package as soon as practicable following Cabinet’s approval;
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noted that the Minister of Education and Associate Minister of Education intend to publicly
release this paper as soon as practicable following any decisions required to implement the
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Education Report: Lost Learning initiative – approach and methodology
for monitoring and reporting
To:
Hon Jan Tinetti, Associate Minister of Education
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Cc:
Hon Chris Hipkins, Minister of Education
Date:
19 October 2022
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METIS No:
1296830
Drafter:
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DDI:
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Purpose of report
This paper seeks your agreement to the approach and methodology for evaluating, monitoring,
and reporting on the Lost Learning initiatives.
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1.
The  Ministry  is  implementing  a  package  of  Lost  Learning  initiatives  that  will  provide
targeted  supports  for  students  whose  learning  has  been  disrupted  by  COVID-19  and
other illnesses throughout 2022. These include:
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expanding or restarting existing community-led programmes across the country to
support Māori and Pacific NCEA students;
b.
expanding the cap on Te Kura’s Dual Tuition Summer School by 500 places over
the 2022/23 summer to support students in Years 11–12 who need a small number
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of credits to attain NCEA;
c.
Targeted funding for additional teaching and tutoring support for students in years
7-13 who most need opportunities to catch-up on lost learning. Schools will have
the  option  of  receiving  funding  directly  to  put  their  own  additional  tutoring  and
teaching  in  place,  or  of  using  a  national  panel  of  tutoring  providers  to  be
established by the Ministry.
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We propose providing monthly reports on the progress of the Lost Learning initiatives
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through Education Weekly Updates (EWUs).
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The first report, in November, will include information on schools’ uptake of funding to
implement their own additional tutoring and teaching programmes (as part of Initiative
C). Data on the uptake of the national panel of tutoring providers will be provided early
in 2023.
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Background
1.
On  13  September,  Cabinet  approved  a  package  of  initiatives  to  support  students  to
accelerate their learning, with a focus on provision in Term 4 of 2022 and Term 1 of 2023
[METIS 1294796 refers]. These initiatives included:

a.
expanding or restarting existing community-led programmes across the country to
support Māori and Pacific NCEA students ($2.237m);

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expanding the cap on Te Kura’s Dual Tuition Summer School by 500 places over
the 2022/23 summer to support students in Years 11–12 who need a small number
of credits to attain NCEA ($0.351m);

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c.
Targeted funding for additional teaching and tutoring support for students in years
7-13 who most need opportunities to catch-up on lost learning ($17.413m).

2.
You announced these initiatives on 14 September.

3.
On 21 September, your office asked for information about the proposed approach and
methodology for monitoring and evaluating the Lost Learning initiatives.
Monitoring and reporting timeline
4.
We propose a monthly reporting schedule that will include metrics on uptake for all three
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initiatives  and  key  insights  into  the  impact  of  the  additional  teaching  and  tutoring
initiative. We will provide these in the Education Weekly Updates (EWUs).

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We consider that a monthly schedule is the right frequency because the information will
not change quickly enough to provide useful data at a more frequent reporting schedule.

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We will provide updates at the beginning of each month, starting in November.

7.
The first report will only provide an update on the tutoring initiative as we will not receive
data from the other programmes until November. They will be included in the December
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Initiative A – Community-led Māori and Pacific programmes

8.
This  initiative  will  expand  or  restart  existing  community-led  programmes  across  the
country to support Māori and Pacific NCEA students during Term 4 2022.
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Programmes  will  provide  data  about  student  participation  as  the  providers  onboard
ākonga, and as the initiatives finish.

10.  We will include this participation in our monitoring reports once we receive the results.
We will provide information on outcomes following completion of the programmes.

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Initiative B – expanding enrolment in Te Kura’s Dual Tuition Summer School

11.  Enrolment in Te Kura Summer School opens on 7 November 2022, and the programme
will  run  from  19  December  2022  to  10  February  2023.  Enrolments  are  open  until  3
February 2023.
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12.  We have discussed our proposed reporting and monitoring strategy with Te Kura, and
they  have  agreed  to  provide  the  Ministry  with  the  information  needed  for  monthly
monitoring reports.

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13.  We will provide regular updates on student registration numbers before Summer School
starts,  and  updates  on  the  level  of  engagement  in  the  programme  as  measured  by
students accessing learning through Te Kura’s system.

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14.  We will provide the first update of registration information after registration for Te Kura
Summer  School  opens  on  November  7.  Our  registration  updates  will  include
demographic information about students, such as ethnicity, year level, and region.
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15.  Students  can  enrol  until  close  to  the  end  of  the  Summer  School  cycle.  Past  trends
indicate  that  the  majority  of  students  may  enrol  after  they  receive  their  NCEA  result
towards the end of January. Te Kura will only be able to confirm total enrolments and
engagement once the programme finishes.

16.  We will provide an update of the number of credits that students enrolled in Summer
School have achieved once the programme is completed.

Initiative C – Targeted funding for additional teaching and tutoring support

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17.  Eligible schools will receive targeted funding for additional teaching and tutoring support
for students in years 7-13. Schools have the option to source additional teaching and
tutoring for their students or to access tutoring for their students via a national panel of
providers.

Update on procuring the national tutoring panel

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18.  The  national  tutoring  panel  tender  was  released  to  the  market  on  10  October.  Panel
applications  will  close  in  early  November  and  the  national  tutoring  panel  will  be
announced in early December. We will report on schools’ uptake of the tutoring panel
early in 2023.
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19.  The  early  indication  is  that  only  a  minority  of  schools  will  choose  to  use  the  national
tutoring panel.

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20.  We will provide monthly updates in EWU in a dashboard that will include the proportion
of schools and kura that have received their funding allocation and the proportion that
received the additional $1,000 in isolation funding.

21.  The information will be split by region and school type and include analysis of uptake
broken down by region and average Equity Index (EQI) score.

22.  An example of the dashboard is attached as Annex 1 – Lost Learning – October update.

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23.  Schools will provide student information for their tutoring programmes in their reporting
at the end of Term 4 2022, Term 1 2023 and at the end of Term 2 2023 if they continue
provision of support in Term 2.

24.  Once we receive this data from schools, we will update you on the number of students
who have received tutoring.
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25.  The EWU will also include a section with key insights supplied by Regional Directors.
That will include:

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a sense of how the tutoring programmes are going so far;

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information on what is working well for schools and kura, as well as positive
trends;

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common issues schools or kura are experiencing;

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an indication of the common learning gaps schools and kura are focusing on;

e.
an indication of whether the tutoring or other support offered is helping students
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Evaluation approach for the additional teaching and tutoring initiative
26.  The  Ministry  has  committed  to  evaluating  the  implementation  and  success  of  the
additional teaching and tutoring initiative. We will need schools to provide us with some
information  so  we  can  identify  what  has  worked  best,  for  whom,  and  under  which
circumstances.

27.  We have tried to ensure that the reporting burden on schools and kura is kept to the
minimum needed to support a useful evaluation. This is in a context of schools having
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considerable flexibility in the ways they use the funding to support their students.

28.  We will be drawing on the following information that schools will provide to the Ministry
at the end of each term of provision:

a.
the National Student numbers (NSN) of the ākonga who were offered the
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what the support was (categories will be provided);
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the NSN of the ākonga who received the support;
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how much support they received (e.g., how many sessions they participated in).

29.  We will provide the first update with student information early in 2023.

30.  Once the additional tutoring and teaching support concludes, the Ministry will be able to
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provide a longer and more detailed evaluation report later in 2023. This evaluation will
focus  on  qualitative  data  that  the  Ministry  will  gather  by  various  methods,  including
interviews, questionnaires or surveys, linking data with administrative data, and linking
with progress and achievement data available from NCEA and potentially also through
e-asTTle.

Evaluation of the community-led Māori and Pacific programmes

31.  There will be separate evaluations of the community-led Māori and Pacific programmes.
The evaluation for the community-led Māori programme wil  be completed in March 2023
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2023. We will provide your office with these reports at that time.

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Risks
32.  There  is  a  risk  that  schools  and  programmes  do  not  provide  all  the  information
requested,  or that  it  is  not  correct. Ministry  regional  Education  Advisers will  follow  up
with schools if there are concerns about the completeness of their reporting. We do not
intend to enforce reporting in other ways, such as clawing back or withholding funding.

33.  To  undertake  the  qualitative  aspects  of  the  evaluation  we  will  be  relying  on  schools’
willingness to participate. We will approach a sample of schools, so we get coverage of
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being too intrusive. If schools are unwilling, our sample will provide a similar alternative
school to approach.

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Annex 1:
Lost Learning – October update (attached separately)

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