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New Zealand education system receives international praise
In 2011, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development published a report on evaluation and assessment frameworks. The report praised New Zealand’s assessment and evaluation practices. It also acknowledged the professionalism of New Zealand teachers, the robustness and credibility of NCEA.
Education Gazette: 5 March 2012
Teachers as assessors NZ’s assessment approach is based on a firm
belief in teacher professionalism. Instead of implementing high-stakes national assessments to monitor student achievement and progress, the New Zealand strategy aims to build teacher capacity and provide teachers with a range of assessment tools to help them make their own professional judgements about student performance.
OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: New Zealand 2011
What we are here for is to
build your capacity
provide you with a range of assessment tools … help you make your own professional
judgements about student performance.
The teachers new to NCEA workshop will cover key principles of good assessment practice based on
strategies to manage and ensure authenticity of student work submitted
NZQA's further assessment and resubmission requirements
recognising achievement and collecting credible evidence
tools to assist with collection of valid, authentic and verifiable evidence
NZQA's requirements for internal moderation and a response to external moderation.
Please note this is not a subject specific workshop and is based on NZQA rules and consent guidelines.......
Roles of the Ministry of Education (MOE) and NZQA
• The MOE “owns” the curriculum, the achievement standards and the NCEA qualification
• The MOE produces internal assessment resources
and• NZQA assesses the externally-assessed standards
and is responsible for quality assurance of internal assessment
Where do you start?
New Zealand Curriculum
nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/The-New-Zealand-Curriculum http://
Teaching and Learning Guides for NCEA Levels 1, 2, 3
http://seniorsecondary.tki.org.nz/
Standards define the learning outcomes to be assessed
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/qualifications-standards/qualifications/ncea/subjects/
Subject pages, leading to assessment resources, including those contextualised for a Vocational Pathway
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/qualifications-standards/qualifications/ncea/subjects/
The New Zealand CurriculumLevel Eight Technology
NATURE OF TECHNOLOGY
Students will:
Characteristics of technology“Understand the implications of technology as intervention by design and how interventions have consequences, known and unknown , intended and unintended”
Characteristics of technological outcomes“ Understand how technological outcomes can be interpreted and justified as fit for purpose in their historical, cultural, social and geographical locations.”
The New Zealand Curriculum 2007 “Years and Curriculum Levels: Level Eight Technology”
What makes assessment credible ?
For students? For parents? For teachers? For Middle and Senior Management?
NZQA - consider all evidence that is
valid - an assessment measures what it is supposed to measure, standard-specific – as detailed in the achievement criteria
authentic – contains the student’s own ideas and understanding
verifiable - by being recorded in a way that allows someone else to judge the evidence.
Without evidence there is only an opinion.
Assessment opportunities
When to assess?
When is re-submission offered?
Use of a further opportunity for assessment?
See Assessment Rules for Schools with Consent to Assess 2015 Section 6.7
Authenticity Why do students present inauthentic work?
In what ways do they do this?
What strategies can you use to detect this?
What can be done to prevent this?
PREVENTION
Plagiarism
Teacher Practice
Undue Help
Assessment from public sources
DETECTION
AuthenticityYou need to be confident the skill demonstrated is that of the student being awarded the grade.
Strategies may include:
changing the context of the assessment
controlling the conditions during the assessment
supervising the process by using regular checkpoints
oral questioning
repeating a performance
controlling the resources available
controlling group work
requiring a signature on an authenticity statement.
What is internal moderation?
Results reported to NZQA are the work of more than one professional.
Critiquing Modify publicly-available task. Critique all assessment materials before use
Critiquer must understand standards-based assessment, but need not be a subject specialist.
Verification Verify an adequate sample of the grade judgments for all
standards Verify at grade boundaries Make consistent judgements across multiple classes
Verifier should be another subject specialist with standard and curriculum knowledge.
What is external moderation?
NZQA externally moderates a small sample of internally assessed standards in schools.
External moderation provides evidence that the school’s internal moderation is ensuring credible assessment at the national standard.
It is a calculation of a national moderator/teacher agreement rate at each NCEA level, published in NZQA’s annual report
What is the National Systems Check?
2013 2014
Credit 88.0% 91.9%
Grade 75.9% 82.8%
Ref: Table 13 – National moderation agreement rates Annual Report on NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship Data and Statistics (2014)
Other tools available to assist with valid and credible evidence gathering NZQA website
o Subject pages
o “Schools and Teachers” landing page
o Best Practice Workshops
o Circulars
o NZQA assessment (and Examination) Rules
• NCEA on TKI