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Our work by the numbers
NZQA is a busy organisation, with responsibility for a diverse range of functions affecting large numbers of people.
Exams
✔ Approximately 1.1 million exam booklets produced
✔ 140,000 student entered for National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) external assessments, including 20,000 students entered for one or more digital exams
✔ 17,500 entries for NZ Scholarship
✔ 173,000 NZQA website visitors on the day of NCEA exam results release with 86,000 users viewing their personal records*
✔ 11,000 calls in the 48 hours following NCEA exam results release*
✔ 470 teachers involved in exam development
✔ 413 exam centres
✔ 5,500 exam centre staff
✔ 1,700 markers
* Numbers from January 2019 NCEA Results Release day
Qualifications
✔ 9.4 million tertiary education organisation (TEO) credits added to learner records
✔ 85,000 qualification certificates issued to learners
✔ 53,000 students awarded NCEA Level 1, 49,500 students awarded Level 2, 33,000 awarded Level 3
✔ 24,000 students awarded University Entrance
✔ 15,000 applications processed for international qualifications recognition
✔ 43 countries with NZQA qualifications recognition arrangements
✔ 130 qualifications developed by NZQA
Quality Assurance
✔ 95,000 samples of student work moderated
✔ 70 best-practice workshops delivered to 1600 teachers
✔ 155 MNAs (managing national assessment) reviews completed to check secondary school assessment practice
✔ 68 tertiary programmes assessed for Māori cultural capability
✔ Numerous student advisory groups covering online assessment; science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects; Māori and Pasifika etc
✔ 450 tertiary education organisations (TEOs) quality assessed, including private educators, technical institutes, polytechnics, industry training organisations and wānanga
✔ 147 Mātauranga Māori tertiary programmes approved
✔ 1560 programmes or qualifications approved
✔ 240 risk complaint enquiries managed
✔ 55 risk investigations closed
✔ 40 statutory interventions imposed
✔ 300 TEOs monitored for national external moderation of NZQA standards
✔ 40 programmes monitored involving moderation of 1200 learner samples
✔ 130 external evaluation review (EER) site visits conducted
Other
✔ 190,000 phone queries and 60,000 emails from students and the public
✔ 17 million visits to the public website, with 2.8 million of those in November
✔4.6 million visits to the secure website, with 715,000 of those in January
✔ 6 free trade agreements include NZQA responsibilities