I am sure that you have caught up with the changes to NCEA announced last
Tuesday but here is the link to the TV3 report for those who haven’t. I have also included a news article that gives the main changes.
Education Minister Steve Maharey
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Students will be encouraged to strive for top results and their exams marks should be more consistent, under changes unveiled in NCEA.
Education Minister Steve Maharey has made the changes following 191 recommendations from reviews of the system in 2005.
From this year, Excellence and Merit marks will be introduced to NCEA certificates, and in a big change, Not Achieved marks will be put on both internally and externally assessed standards from 2008.
And up to 10 percent of internally assessed units will be moderated by full-time NZQA appointed officers.
NCEA has been dogged by problems since it started five years ago but after a major review and 191 recommendations the Government has made a number of changes.
Steve Maharey admitted NCEA has failed in parts since being introduced.
“(The changes) mean for an employer they know where the strengths don’t lie with the person they have got in front of them, so that they have a record not only of what they can do and how well they can do it but they know they cant do some things so well,” he said.
39 of the country’s top schools have criticised NCEA and opted for other international assessments, but most 3 news spoke to say the changes are positive.
The way internally assessed standards are moderated is also under scrutiny.
Currently only three percent of work is randomly selected, that will rise to ten percent and have full time moderators from next year.
The minister says all of this is to give NCEA better credibility.
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