National external moderation manual for Tertiary Education Organisations
- Introduction
- General information: NZQA moderation
- General information: Assessment design and practice
- General information: Alignment of Standards
- General information: Targeted Review of Qualifications
- General information: Updates
- National external moderation process flow
- Section One: Assessment Plan
- Section Two: Moderation Plan
- Section Three: Submitting assessment materials for moderation
- Section Four: Moderation Report
- Section Five: National external moderation results
- Section Six: Moderation clarifications and appeals
- Section Seven: Resubmissions
- Section Eight: National External Moderation Requirements
- Section Nine: Assessment Resources
- Section Ten: Overview of reports and forms
- Glossary
- Links
Introduction
Welcome to the 2011 TEO Manual
For a full copy of this manual for printing, you can download the 2011 TEO manual (PDF, 217KB).
This manual explains the process and requirements for national external moderation of unit and achievement standards managed by NZQA.
The manual is intended for people working in a Tertiary Education Organisation (TEO) engaged, or with an interest in, assessment or moderation activity related to NZQA-managed standards. This includes chief executive officers, heads of departments, academic or quality managers, internal moderators, moderation liaisons, teachers/tutors and assessors.
The manual includes information about:
- submitting an assessment plan to NZQA
- national external moderation reports
- interpreting the moderation results
- what to do if asked to resubmit assessment material and assessed learner work
- how to clarify or appeal moderation reports where the TEO is unclear about or disagrees with the moderation results
- meeting, and the consequences of not meeting, national external moderation requirements.
Changes to this year’s manual
A number of changes have been made to the 2011 TEO Manual. The main ones are as follows:
- Information throughout the manual has been updated, including information about the Alignment of Standards with the NZ Curriculum review project.
- New information has been included about the Targeted Review of Qualifications and assessment design and practice.
- Frequently Asked Questions have been removed and the information incorporated in the body of the text.
- Forms and templates have been removed and are now accessible directly from the Tertiary Moderation page of the NZQA website.
Feedback on the TEO Manual
We appreciate feedback from TEOs on the relevance, layout and information supplied in this manual. Please return feedback to Tertiary Assessment and Moderation (TAM) by 1 November 2011 using the TEO Manual feedback form (DOC, 130KB).
Who to contact about assessment and moderation
For all questions and issues to do with assessment and moderation of NZQA-managed standards, please contact Tertiary Assessment and Moderation at NZQA or phone 04 463 3000 or 0800 NZQA 96 (0800 6972 69).