• the very dedicated staff of the Educational Assessment Research Unit
• Lisa Rodgers and other staff members of the Ministry of Education
• members of the Project’s National Advisory Committee
• members of the Project’s Mäori Immersion Education Advisory Committee and Mäori Reference Group
• members of the Project’s Music, Technology, Reading and Speaking advisory panels
• He Kupenga Hao i te Reo Ltd.
• principals and children of the schools where tasks were trialled
• principals, staff and Board of Trustee members of the 12 schools included in the 2004 Mäori medium sample
• the 113 children who participated in the assessments and their parents
• the 4 teachers who administered the assessments to the children
• the 48 senior tertiary students who assisted with the marking process
• the 195 teachers who assisted with the marking of tasks early in 2005.

The following Summary is presented in Mäori; for the English translation Press Here

Nö te tau 1993 i tïmata ai Te Kaupapa Aroturuki Mätauranga ä-Motu. Ko te tino kaupapa, he aromatawai, he tuku pürongo mö te ekenga paetae mätauranga o ngä tamariki o ngä kura tuatahi i roto i ngä marautanga katoa.

Kei te aromatawaihia ngä tamariki i ngä taumata akomanga e rua: i te tau 4 (kei te takiwä haurua o te kura tuatahi) me te tau 8 (te whakamutunga o te kura tuatahi). Ko ngä äkonga o te tau 8 anake ka aromatawaia i ngä kura reo Mäori. He rerekë ngä marautanga me ngä pükenga e aromatawaia ana i ia tau, ä, ka oti ngä marau katoa i te huringa o ia whä tau. Ko ngä kaupapa i oti i te tau 2004, ko te püoru, ëtahi wähi o te hangarau, ko te pänui me te körero.

Ko te whäinga matua o te aroturuki ä-motu, kia äta möhiotia ai he aha ngä mahi e taea ana e ä tätou tamariki, kia kitea ai ngä wähi e pakari ana me ngä wähi e ähua ngoikore ana, kia whakanuia ngä ähuatanga pai, kia tautuhia ngä ähuatanga me whakapai ake, kia tautuhia hoki ngä rauemi e whaihua ana, kia whakatinanahia hoki ënei.

Ia tau, ka tïpako matapökerea ëtahi tamariki ruarua nei, mai i ngä kura puta noa i te motu. Ka aromatawaia ënei tamariki i roto i ö rätou ake kura e tëtahi röpü kaiako kua tohua, kua whakangungua mö tënei momo mahi. Ka tohutohua ngä tamariki mä te reo ä-waha o te kaiako, mä te whiti ataata, mä te rorohiko, mä te tuhituhi ränei. Ko te nuinga o ngä ngohe aromatawai, he mea whakamahi taputapu, whakamahi rauemi ränei. Ko ngä momo whakautu a ngä äkonga, ko te whakautu ä-waha, ko te whakaatu, ko te tuhituhi, ko te whakautu ä-rorohiko, ko te hanganga ä-ringa ränei. He maha ngä whakautu ka hopukina ki te whiti ataata hei arotakenga i muri iho.