National External Moderation for Tertiary Education Organisations
Assessment Plan
Assessment plan for NZQA ‑managed standards
The assessment plan is a list of all NZQA‑managed standards the TEO plans to assess in the coming year. TEOs must complete an assessment plan annually. If a TEO is reporting credits for a standard, that standard must be included on the assessment plan.
Industry Training Organisation (ITO)‑managed standards
TEOs should not record standards that are managed by ITOs or other SSBs on the NZQA assessment plan. ITOs and SSBs are responsible for their own national external moderation for standards they manage. Further information regarding this is available from the Industry Training Federation (ITF), or in the relevant Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP).
Outsourcing
TEOs that report credits for standards that are assessed under an outsourcing arrangement are required to list these standards on their assessment plan.
Online assessment plan
TEOs are expected to use the online facility to complete their annual assessment plan.
The Moderation Liaison should contact the Tertiary Helpline on 0800 422 599 or email Tertiary.Help@minedu.govt.nz to apply for access to the NZQA secure extranet. TEO logons can be obtained via: http://cms.steo.govt.nz/News+and+Info/ESAA.htm
Benefits of using the online system
Multi-site organisations can enter one plan per site if preferred (a single moderation plan will be sent to the "parent" site).
A TEO can:
- submit an online assessment plan two weeks later than a paper-based assessment plan
- view copies of their assessment plans from previous years
- use the 2009 assessment plan as a template for the 2010 assessment plan
- check whether their assessment plan has been received by NZQA
- start entering standards in their online assessment plan at any time.
Changes to Assessment Plans
If your organisation is no longer assessing standards selected for moderation, or learner samples are not available, please email tam@nzqa.govt.nz immediately. Refer to the contact details.
This notification must occur before the submission date.
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Page updated: 18 November 2008