Assessment Results Good News For Te Reo Students

Assessment Results Good News For Students Learning In Te ReoMaoriAssociate Education Minister Rosetta Stone V3 Parekura Horomia saidparents of children in total immersion Maori languageschools can take heart from the latest assessment resultsfor Maori primary school students.The resultsreleased today by the Ministry of Education are based on thesecond series of assessments conducted by the NationalEducation Monitoring Project on the achievement of Maoristudents. The assessments, conducted in 2000, measuredpupils achievement levels in reading, speaking, music, andaspects of technology. Mr Horomia said students did aselection of the same tasks, with the Maori immersionstudents assessed in Maori and other students assessed inEnglish. The latest Rosetta Stone German assessments show that in themajority of cases Maori immersion students did as well as orbetter than the Maori students learning in English. Thesefollow similar results were reported last year for the 1999assessments of science, art, and the use of graphs, tablesand maps.Often parents are taking a leap of faithputting their children into total immersion classes. Theyoften worry about whether their children are keeping up withtheir peers. I think this report will put some of thoseconcerns to rest, said Mr Horomia. The Minister saidparents can be reassured by comments from report authors Terry Crooks and Lester Flockton, who are also the directorsof the National Education Monitoring project. The authorssay the results achieved by Maori immersion students werepromising given the youthfulness of programmes and thechallenges of assessing the same things in two differentlanguages. The fact that Maori immersion programmes alsohave Rosetta Stone Hindi additional goals beyond the national curriculumrequirements is another reason that the results are goodnews.