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Title
Reflect critically on assessment
Level
7
Credits
15
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: analyse
national assessment requirements; critique the role and impact
of assessment; and critique approaches to assessment.
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
The critique required in Elements 2 and 3 must be sourced in educational literature
and referenced according to current research conventions.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
This unit standard is
Evidence requirements
expiring
1.1
Analysis identifies national
assessment requirements and their purposes at
Analyse national assessment requirements.
different levels of the New Zealand education system.
1.2
Analysis examines the debates associated with national assessment
requirements at different levels of the New Zealand education system.
Outcome 2
Critique the role and impact of assessment.
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Evidence requirements
2.1
Critique establishes the role of assessment in teaching and learning.
2.2
Critique examines the quality of conclusions that can be drawn from
assessment data.
2.3
Critique examines the known impacts of assessment on learner self-efficacy.
2.4
Critique examines the impact of assessment on teacher workload.
Outcome 3
Critique approaches to assessment.
Range
approaches to assessment may include – standards-based, norm referenced;
teacher assessment, peer assessment, self-assessment.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Critique examines the characteristics of approaches to assessment.
3.2
Critique evaluates the strengths and limitations of approaches to assessment.
may include – consideration of quality of evidence in relation to
purpose, impact on learners, impact on teacher, influence of
context, influence of moderation.
Range
This unit standard is
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Dateexpiring Last Date for Assessment
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
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
0074
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
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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.
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
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.
This unit standard is
expiring
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