Reflections from Northland Maths Assoc day
Over the weekend I attended the Northland Maths Association day where a National Assessment Moderator from NZQA was a guest speaker. This post includes my understanding of some of the conversations on the day and may not necessarily be the views of the moderator or NZQA. If you have queries please check. The role of NZQA and the external moderation process is outlined in the NCEA annual report published in May each year. See page 88 at this link "Each year NZQA moderates approximately 100,000 individual pieces of student work that are submitted by schools as part of their external moderation process. The standards moderated are from the range of standards for internally-assessed standards that schools can select to use in their teaching programmes" From this work our moderators build a national picture where we as teachers see only our school picture. "The focus of the moderation process is to ensure that student evidence for specific standards meets the criteria of t...