NZQA INFO Term 2 April/May
CIRCULARS
Please check the following circulars on this link and take relevant action .
We no longer get them in hard copy.
www.nzqa.govt.nz/publications/circulars
Assessment Matters
A2009/006
Moderation of Te Reo Māori and Te Reo Rangatira Kōrero achievement and unit standards.doc
A2009/007
Assessment Format Change for 2009 general
A2009/008
Assessment Format Change for 2009 - Biology
A2009/009
Assessment Format Change for 2009 – Chemistry
SecQual
S2009/009
S2009/010
Update: Assessment Specifications for the External Assessment of Level 1, 2 and 3 Achievement
Standards and Scholarship for 2009
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DATA SUBMISSION FILES 2009
First Data file will be processed by NZQA on Friday May 1st..
Please check entries, standard headings and results.
ASSESSMENT REPORTS FOR 2008 NCEA EXAMINATIONS
Assessment Reports for the 2008 examinations have now been published on the NZQA website. The link for
accessing these reports is:
NCEA: Subject-specific resources [ NZQA ] (the Subject-specific Resources webpage)
Reports are now available for Accounting, Agriculture and Horticulture, Art History, Biology, Calculus,
Chemistry, Chinese, Classical Studies, Dance, Drama, Economics, Education for Sustainability, English, French,
Geography, German, Graphics, Health, History, Home Economics, Human Biology, Information Management,
Japanese, Latin, Mathematics, Media Studies, Music, Physical Education, Physics, Science, Social Studies,
Spanish, Statistics and Modelling, Technology, Te Reo Maori, To Reo Rangatira, Visual Arts.
Reports for other subjects will be published online as soon as they are available. It is expected that all reports for
the 2008 examinations will be available by the end of May 2009.
2008 NATIONAL MODERATOR’S REPORTS
The 2008 National Moderator’s Reports for all subjects have been available on the NZQA website since the first
week of April. They can be found either by the direct link on the subject-specific resource pages
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/resources/index.html or by using the Search function and searching for the subject
and “Reports and schedules”.
APPEALING EXTERNAL MODERATION
Schools can appeal or seek further clarification of external moderation if there are issues in the Moderation
Reports that cause concern or are unclear. We are encouraged to use this process where teachers are unhappy with
the results of moderation and wish to seek a second opinion or have a particular aspect explained or clarified.
Details of the appeal or further clarification should be given on the Moderation Appeal Cover Sheet. The cover
sheet has been updated to include tick boxes for indicating whether the moderation is being appealed or further
clarification is being sought. The updated Moderation Appeal Cover Sheet is available at
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/acrp/secondary/forms.html
SUBMITTING TEACHER-SELECTED EVIDENCE FOR MODERATOR FEEDBACK
Moderators report that many schools are yet to make use of the opportunity to get specific feedback on up to four
samples of student work sent with external moderation submissions. When teachers are verifying student grades
and considering work at grade boundaries, they might be encouraged to store work with questions for the
moderator as well as the randomly-selected samples to ensure their questions can be answered when the standard
is next selected for external moderation. It would be useful for teachers to refer to the recent Assessment Matters
Circular 2009/013 Sending teacher-selected evidence with external moderation for examples of the types of
questions that could be useful to ask.
SUBJECT-SPECIFIC RESOURCES WEBPAGES
NZQA reported that teachers attending Moderator Best Practice Workshops in April revealed many do not yet
know about the assessment information available for their subject on the NZQA website. Please assist your
department to find these pages and the resources that are available for them at
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/resources/index.html
Moderator Newsletters and Clarifications documents are regularly updated.
BEST PRACTICE WORKSHOPS
Best Practice Workshops are available for teachers again this year. We have entered several staff and you will be
contacted directly by email if you have a place.
Moderator Workshops are being run again in July, October and November.
The recent April workshops have gone very well and there have been many positive comments from teachers
who attended. They appreciated the opportunity for professional dialogue with national moderators.
Registrations for the July workshops close on Friday 12 June. Use the school PD form & usual process if
you are interested.
See http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/for-schools/bestpractice/index.html
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ESOL MODERATORS
NZQA is looking to train five ESOL moderators in June .Check NZQA website under ‘jobs’ if interested.
Mutually Exclusive Standards
HODs please check the list of mutually exclusive standards. These are usually unit and
achievement standards which cover similar material. It is fine to teach and assess both but The
problem comes when staff keep their options open too long and report both results without
making sure ther student knows that only one will be counted toward a National Assessment. The
list was given out earlier in the year and is readily available on the NZQA website (often fastest
just to google NZQA+topic )
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