NZQA welcomes

clients

Sue SucklingChair, NZQA

NZQA Board

Chair:

Members:

Sue Suckling

Alison McAlpine

Angela Foulkes

John Langley

John Morgan

Keith Taylor

Samantha Lundon

Shona Smith

Strategic Management Team

Karen Poutasi – Chief Executive

Bali Haque – DCE Qualifications

Catherine Williams – DCE Strategic & Corporate Services

Daryn Bean – DCE Māori

Tim Fowler – DCE Quality Assurance

Our role

• The New Zealand Qualifications Authority is the expert body which ensures that New Zealand qualifications are valued as credible, nationally and internationally.

Key Functions

• administration of national secondary examinations

• moderation of internal assessment in secondary schools

• management of the Register of Quality Assured Qualifications and the National Qualifications Framework

• Quality Assurance of the non-university tertiary sector

• standard setting in National Qualifications Service (NQS) and Māori Qualifications Service (MQS) – making up about 25% of all standards.

We value your views

Are we:• responsive?• professional?• fair and impartial?

Do we:• provide accurate information?• understand your “business”?• admit when we get it wrong and put it right?

Talk to us!

Bali HaqueDCE

Qualifications

Alignment of Standards with NZ Curriculum

• Joint project by NZQA and Ministry of Education

• Achievement Standards to reflect Curriculum

• Unit Standards – non-Curriculum content

• M and E grades possible for Unit Standards

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Alignment of Standards with NZ Curriculum

• New aligned standards will be in use from next year:

– Level 1 in 2011

– Level 2 in 2012

– Level 3 in 2013

• Assessment resources for internally assessed standards – being developed by MoE.

• Exemplars – being developed by NZQA

• Literacy and Numeracy standards

• Transition arrangements

Course Endorsement

• complements Certificate Endorsement

• Merit and Excellence endorsement of individual courses

• requires 14 credits at Excellence or 14 credits at Merit or Excellence

• at least 3 of the 14 credits internally assessed standards, and 3 from external assessment

• for introduction from 2011 at levels 1-3.

NCEA and Scholarship report

• Comprehensive report of NCEA and Scholarship examinations- will be released on an annual basis

• National Statistics- including:– Results by ethnicity, gender and decile

– Moderation of internal assessment

– Reviews and reconsiderations

– Breaches of examination rules

Available online – April 2010

NCEA and Scholarship report – statistical trends

• Roll data shows significance increase in retention – 24% rise in Year 13 roll from 2004-09.

• Over the period 2004-2009, the gap in achievement between Māori and Pasifika students and other ethnicities has narrowed slightly.

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Internally Assessed Achievement Standard

1,566,275 21.2 38.7 24.1 15.9

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1,509,211 30.5 41.6 20.3 7.6

Tim FowlerDCE

Quality Assurance

Evaluative quality assurance

• 1 September 2009 - new regulatory arrangements replaced Quality Assurance Standard 1

• 35 External evaluation and review (EER) reports now online

• A further 40 reports being finalised.

• Approx. 24 EERs per month.

• 150 EERs to be completed by 30 June 2010.

Targeted review of qualifications

• Completed late-2009

• Focused on diploma and certificate levels (levels 1 to 6, excluding NCEA)

• Findings:• system not understood by students/employers• too many qualifications and duplications• pathways not clear for

students/parents/employers

• High cost and long time-to-market of new qualifications

Change Package - 2010

• Establish a single, unified New Zealand Qualifications Framework

• Require use of existing quality assured qualifications and enable local components to be included in qualifications

• Require mandatory reviews of qualifications

• Require mandatory pre-development assessment of qualifications

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Change Package – 2010 cont.

• Strengthen qualification outcome statements and clearly state education and employment pathways

• Strengthen industry involvement in qualification development

• Provide clear information on qualification status

Results

• NZQF internationally relevant

• 45% overall cut in qualifications, especially local

• Increase in use of national and NZ qualifications

• Clear pathways to futurequalifications for learners / employers

• Qualifications relevant to industry

• Significant financial savings

First deliverables

• NZQF (July 2010)

• Qualification types and local components

(October 2010)

• Pre-development approval (October 2010)

• Policy for mandatory reviews (January 2011)

NZQA welcomes

clients