Financial Literacy: NZQA’s perspective. Current state Unit standards initially published in 2008,...

Financial Literacy: NZQA’s

perspective

Current state• Unit standards initially published in 2008, recently republished to

include merit and excellence grades

• Assessment support material being rolled out to support graded standards

• Aligned to CFLRI framework

• Study of personal financial management can contribute evidence towards NCEA literacy and numeracy requirement

• Some personal financial management unit standards are included in Vocational Pathways www.youthguarantee.net.nz

What do we know?Total secondary students with one or more results in Personal Financial Management unit standards

What do we know? (2)Year 11 students with one or more results in Personal Financial Management unit standards

What do we know? (3)Year 11 students by ethnicity with one or more results in Personal Financial Management

What do we know? (4)Year 11 students by decile with one or more results in Personal Financial Management

Opportunities

• Graded standards enable award of endorsement -NCEA and/or course

• Increased collaboration and alignment between organisations delivering financial education- Young Enterprise Trust- Bamzonia- The Skills Organisation (ITO)

• Further exploration of data to………..

Further information

E mail: nqs@nzqa.govt.nz

Youth guarantee: www.nzqa.govt.nz/yg