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Updates Bali Haque November 2009. Standards Alignment. Aligned with The New Zealand Curriculum (2007) Credit parity Duplication Curriculum levels 6-8 Unit and Achievement standards. Reporting options. Student A NCEA Level 1. Student B NCEA Level 1. Progress.
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Standards Alignment • Aligned with The New Zealand Curriculum (2007) • Credit parity • Duplication • Curriculum levels 6-8 • Unit and Achievement standards
Reporting options Student A NCEA Level 1 Student B NCEA Level 1
Progress • All Level 1 consulted on, revised, based on consultation assessment resource, development and moderator comments • Almost all subjects have draft Level 2 standards developed
Assessment resources • Quality assured • Support to articulate the standards • Grade boundaries • Trialled • Two for each standard with significant changes • Trialled in schools • 12 exemplars • National moderators for moderating annotating and QA
External assessment resources • Trial exam papers/exemplars • Trialled Term 1 and 2, 2010 • Writing draft sample exams and schedules in Terms 3 & 4, 2009 • Identifying any issues with the wording of draft standards • Amending standards to ensure they are ‘fit for purpose’ • Editing sample exams and schedules in Term 4 2009 and Term 1 2010 • Placing sample exams and schedules on TKI website in May 2010 • Trialling resources during Term 2 2010 to ensure they are ‘fit for purpose’ • Publishing annotated exemplars of student work late in 2010
A focus on literacy and numeracy • Development of school National Standards (MoE) • Adult learning progressions (TEC) • Non-curriculum literacy/numeracy unit standards available to all (not just secondary), worth 20 credits (10 credits of each) at NCEA level 1 at national curriculum level 4/5, functional/ embedded or; • Through Level 1 (curriculum level 6) specified standards (mapping)
Reporting options Student A NCEA Level 1 with Merit / Excellence
Subject endorsement • Motivation: subject-based • Promote flexibility/innovation • Minimal administration load • Fair/equitable
Subject endorsement • 14 merit or excellence credits • Reporting by “subject”
Subject endorsement • For the purpose of subject endorsement, a national subject is a collection of achievement standards related to the same-subject reference, as designated by the standard document • School developed subjects • Are assessed using standards related to 2 or more national subjects and can include unit standards with Merit & Excellence grades
Implementation timeframe 2011 / Level 1; 2012 / Level 2; 2013 / Level 3 Subject endorsement
Subject endorsement • If same standards assessed in a national and in a school developed subject result in endorsement of school developed subject • No cross crediting of standards within a year • Standards can be used again in subsequent years • Multi-levelling encouraged
Subject endorsement • Internal and external assessment • Inter-subject issues • Intra-subject issues
Further assessment opportunities • One further assessment opportunity • One re-submission • Collection of evidence • the whole standard must be addressed in the final judgement
Moderation • Teacher selected evidence and questions under utilised (only1000 samples in 2009) • Best practice workshops (4 rounds/1196 workshops/2561 teachers) • Lots of no shows particularly from rural areas • Subject specific pages • Standards alignment – full involvement of moderators
Issues • Over-assessment • Credit counting? Merit and Excellence grades • Using the NQF?
Forward • UE review • Tertiary Admissions