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Recently NZQA added a  National Moderators report  to the maths & stats home page .  It  highlights general issues and trends that have been identified during external moderation of the internal Mathematics and Statistics standards in 2018. THe report includes information about  Volume of Evidence Produced Excellence at Level 3 Group Work Integrated Assessment of Standards Sample to Population Inference A  National Moderators report was  last published in 2011  after which it was replaced by moderators newsletters and clarifications. Its worth having a quick read    Moderators newsletters and current clarifications can be found from the  Maths & Stats home page A3 summaries  for internal standards containing links to the curriculum, conditions of assessment, clarifications and the standard for quick reference, click the NCEA A3 Standard Summaries in the link on the sidebar of this page. These documents contain  the current clarifications. You can also read

As students begin completing assessment tasks I have had a number of queries about what is meant by a range of... and a selection of... in EN4 of the the maths & stats standards. I dug into the archives and found the following in a National Newsletter from 2016   (P. 2)  It is my understanding nothing has changed.  At Level 1, “a selection of....” means 3 or more methods that are relevant and contribute towards solving the problem.  At Level 2 & 3, “a range of...” means 2 or more methods that are relevant and contribute towards solving the problem.  For statistics standards all bullet points must be present in the report for achieved.  What constitutes a method in L1 and L2 trig standards?, is another common query For 91032:  Using Sin, Cos or Tan to find a side is a method Using Sin, Cos or Tan to find an angle is another Taking measurements at a precision appropriate to the task is a method. The students must choose what to measure and use their measurement in