External moderation
Procedures to check that the school is assessing at the same standard as other schools nationally.
All internally assessed achievement standards and unit standards are subject to moderation by NZQA to ensure that internal school-based assessment standards reflect the national standard. This is a check of the school’s systems and it is not a check of individual students. Schools will be advised of a submission date by NZQA and the achievement and unit standards to be moderated. The moderation report received from NZQA will be used to inform internal moderation decisions. HoDs of subjects who receive moderation reports that identify problems will be required to provide documentary evidence of the steps that they have instigated to rectify the identified problems. ● Schools will be advised by NZQA of a submission date and the achievement standards to be moderated. Standards can be nominated in the previous year. ● Before that date, for each selected achievement standard, HoDs will upload to the NZQA secure moderation portal the assessment activity, the assessment schedule, evidence of internal moderation and samples of marked student work. ● For each selected achievement standard, HoDs will provide six samples of marked student work. If there are fewer than six students who participated in the standard, then all assessments must be submitted. ● HoDs will be required to submit moderation through the NZQA Moderation App. ● It is the job of the Principal’s Nominee to ensure appropriate tracking of the collection, posting, receiving, processing and returning of moderated materials. ● The moderation report received from NZQA will be used to inform internal moderation decisions. HoDs of subjects who receive moderation reports that identify problems will be required to provide documentary evidence of the steps that they have implemented to rectify the identified problems. This should be submitted to the Assistant Principal – Curriculum prior to commencing with new assessment of the standard in question (ideally by the start of the next school year). Selection of Samples From 2022, NZQA is no longer asking for a random selection. Instead they ask for the following: Unit Standards (with only Achieved as a grade available) : Four samples of student work Achievement Standards (and US with NAME criteria): Six samples of student work for standards where more than one passing grade is available, e.g. Achieved, Merit or Excellence (Achievement Standards and some Unit Standards). The six samples should include one sample each at N, A, M, E and two more selected from A, M, E. If you do not have a sample at a grade, replace with one at the nearest grade available, but only send a maximum of one sample at N. ALL departments must provide a central location where all assessments from a standard are archived together. From 2024 external moderation is all from the year of the moderation. If you are not able to meet the time frame for external moderation, due to an assessment being late in the year then please inform the Principal’s Nominee.
Christ’s College Assessment Procedures
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