Secondary School Literacy Project (SLP)
Director: Stephen May
Researchers: Noeline Wright & David Whitehead
Project Dates: 2006 - 2009
The Secondary School Literacy Project (SLP) Research Evaluation (2006-2009) was funded by the Ministry of Education and directed by Prof. Stephen May, with Dr Noeline Wright as Senior Research Officer and Dr David Whitehead as Quantitative Researcher.
The three-year SLP research evaluation extends a previous research evaluation conducted by WMIER for the Secondary Schools’ Literacy Initiative (SSLI), the precursor to SLP.
The initial SSLI evaluation identified that schools were at widely different levels of school ‘readiness’ in relation to implementing cross-curricular literacy initiatives and identified three key readiness phases as ones of establishment, consolidation and sustainability.
The SLP evaluation continued to explore the degree to which secondary schools across the country were able to implement literacy across the curriculum effectively in relation to these already-identified school readiness phases. In particular, it focused on the following key features identified from the earlier SSLI evaluation:
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literacy focus;
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key people;
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roles;
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professional development;
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resources;
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data; and
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student outcomes.
These key features were also analysed in relation to three key domains:
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internal school processes;
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the interaction of these school processes with outside SLP professional development facilitation; and
- the SLP facilitation process itself.