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Title
Assess to support student learning
Level
6
Credits
20
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: plan
assessment that encourages learning; design assessment
activities; manage assessment; use assessment information;
report assessment information; and evaluate own assessment
practices.
Classification
Teacher Education > Teaching
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Candidates assessed against this unit standard must demonstrate a standard of
performance that is consistent with the National Education Guidelines, Learning
Media Limited, Ministry of Education, Wellington, 2009; and Special Education Policy
Guidelines, Ministry of Education, Wellington, 2012.
2
Evidence of candidate performance is to be collected within a school context.
3
Definition
Characteristics of effective assessment refers to assessment that benefits students,
involves students, supports teaching and learning goals, is planned and
communicated, is suited to the purpose, is valid and fair.
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
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Outcome 1
Plan assessment that encourages learning.
Evidence requirements
1.1
The assessment plan illustrates how varied purposes of assessment will be
met.
Range
purposes of assessment may include but are not limited to –
information for learning; information for future learning; information
for school review and development; information for governance;
information for stakeholders.
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1.2
The assessment plan illustrates how assessment activities will be integrated
within sequences of learning.
1.3
The assessment plan illustrates how assessment activities will enable students
to demonstrate understanding in a variety of ways.
Outcome 2
Design assessment activities.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Assessment activities reflect known qualities of effective assessment.
Range
2.2
known qualities of effective assessment may include – reliability,
validity, sufficiency, clarity of language, student involvement in
monitoring own learning.
Criteria by which assessment activities are to be assessed are established
consistent with the requirements of the activity.
Outcome 3
Manage assessment.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Student performance on activities is assessed consistent with established
criteria.
Range
3.2
assessment of student performance on activities may include –
assessment by teacher and/or students.
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Range
may be an actual or simulated system.
An assessment record keeping system enables a reliable cumulative profile of
performance to be established.
Outcome 4
Use assessment information.
Evidence requirements
4.1
Assessment information is used to help students establish goals for learning.
4.2
Assessment information from commonly used assessment procedures is
interpreted consistent with guidelines.
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procedures may include but are not limited to – standardised tests,
resource banks, running records, national examinations;
guidelines may include but are not limited to – instruction manuals,
exemplars, reports (for example, moderator and assessment
reports).
4.3
Interpretation of assessment information is used to inform on-going planning
and teaching.
4.4
Assessment information determines levels of achievement.
Outcome 5
Report assessment information.
Evidence requirements
5.1
Reported assessment information is consistent with evidence collected.
5.2
Reported assessment information is expressed objectively and in ways that the
intended audience(s) would understand.
Range
audience(s) may include – the student; parent, caregiver, family,
whānau; the student’s next teacher or employer; the school
leadership team; the Board of Trustees.
5.3
Reported assessment information identifies progress and dimensions of
achievement.
5.4
Reported assessment information reflects sensitivity to students.
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Outcome 6
Evaluate own assessment practices.
6.1
Evaluation of own assessment practices discusses strengths and limitations in
relation to characteristics of effective assessment.
Range
6.2
strengths and limitations may include – nature of evidence, impact
on learner and learning, impact on teacher, gender inclusiveness,
cultural appropriateness, influence of context, relationship to best
practice assessment guidelines.
A minimum of three strengths and limitations must be evaluated.
Evaluation suggests possibilities for future assessment practices.
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This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
21 August 1997
31 December 2012
Revision
2
20 March 2001
31 December 2012
Revision
3
20 April 2004
31 December 2012
Review
4
17 April 2009
31 December 2012
Rollover and
Revision
5
19 July 2012
Review
6
20 August 2015
31 December 2016
31 December 2016
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
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This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
This unit standard is
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
expiring
CMR also includes useful information
about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
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