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Resources for Principal's Nominee
Resources from 2023 seminars
- LNA Seminar Handbook (DOCX, 3.5MB)
- LNA Seminar PowerPoint (PPTX, 10MB)
- Excellence - a competence to mastery model (DOCX, 283KB)
- How to Provide Access to NZQA's LMS (PDF, 843KB)
Principal's Nominee Handbook
Download the latest copy of the Principal's Nominee Handbook (PDF, 2.1MB).
Action items for Principal's Nominees by calendar month
NZQA holds seminars for Principal's Nominees, usually in term one each year, to provide:
- opportunities for schools to share good practice in managing assessment for qualifications
- updates on NZQA policy and processes.
School Assessment Resources
- Assessment in Uncertain Times 2022 (DOCX, 683KB) (Updated June 2022)
- Effective Assessment Practice Guide (PDF, 320KB)
- The Student Login PowerPoint (PPTX, 6.3MB) (Updated April 2022)
- Teachers New to NCEA Handbook (PDF, 2.5MB)
- Teachers New to NCEA Handbook (Word) (DOCX, 40MB)
- Teachers New to NCEA (PPTX, 47MB)
- Derived Grade Quality Assurance Check Template 1 (DOCX, 29KB)
- Derived Grade Quality Assurance Check Template 2 (DOCX, 28KB)
Kaupapa Māori Kura Leaders Seminar
This seminar was designed to meet the needs of senior managers in Kaupapa Māori Kura, based on feedback from the sector. It addresses Appropriate Course Design, Credible Assessment Outcomes, Equitable Access to Qualifications and Evaluation of Achievement Outcomes, offering examples of best practice from high performing kura.
Exam Centre Management
- Examination management
(includes applying to be an exam centre and recruiting your Exam Centre Manager) - Examination Centre Manager role
- NCEA and Scholarship exams annual activity timeline
Download file: A3 wallchart (PDF, 155KB) - Working with the Exam Centre Manager
- Briefing students
- Briefing school staff
- Special Assessment Conditions timeline
- Special Assessment Conditions and exams
- Assessment and Exam Assistants (readers and writers/typists)
- Examination timetable clashes
- Getting ready for digital exams
- Derived grades
- Request to change examination centre
Exam Centre Quality Assurance
NZQA conducts exam centre quality assurance visits to a selected number of schools each year. Download the Exam Centre Quality Assurance form (PDF, 635KB) which details both the school’s and Exam Centre Manager’s responsibilities during examinations.
Updated resources from previous seminars
Resources from 2022 seminars
Resources from the 2021 seminars
Resources from the 2020 seminars
- Seminar PowerPoint (PPTX, 8MB)
- Seminar Booklet (PDF, 5.9MB)
- Resources and review materials:
Resources from the 2019 seminars
- Seminar PowerPoint (PPTX, 1.3MB)
- Seminar Reminders PowerPoint (PPTX, 226KB)
- Seminar Booklet (DOCX, 2.7MB)
- Resources and review materials:
Resources from the 2018 seminars
- Seminar PowerPoint (PPTX, 861KB)
- Seminar Booklet (DOCX, 7.1MB)
- Resources and review materials:
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- Addressing equity in STEM (PDF, 3.3MB)
- External moderation: Tips and Hints (DOCX, 14KB)
- Management of collection and storage of digital student evidence (DOCX, 14KB)
- Managing the Assessment Programmes of Unwell Students (DOCX, 15KB)
- Resubmisison Scenario activity (DOCX, 30KB)
- Reviewing your school external moderation processes (DOCX, 15KB)
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Resources from the 2014-2017 seminars
- Seminar PowerPoint 2017 (PPTX, 1.4MB)
- Seminar Booklet 2017 (DOCX, 4.5MB) (PPTX, 1.4MB)
- Vocational Pathways PowerPoint (PPTX, 928KB)
- UE PowerPoint (PPTX, 85KB)
- Planning tool for Integrated Learning Context (DOCX, 12KB)
- Effective Practice in Schools guide
- Resources and review materials:
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- Where is your school at with digital evidence collection and external moderation submission (DOCX, 15KB)
- Reviewing school systems and processes to support digital external moderation submission (DOCX, 16KB)
- Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) - Guide (DOC, 39KB)
- Checklist for Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) (DOCX, 14KB)
- Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Tracking Sample. (DOCX, 14KB)
- Future State planning document (DOCX, 20KB)
- Planning tool for Integrated Learning Context (DOCX, 12KB)
- Review of internal moderation processes (DOCX, 27KB)
- Verification clarification and discussion activities (DOCX, 15KB)
- Reviewing the QMS (DOCX, 15KB)
- Checklist for the QMS (DOCX, 15KB)
- Self-review mechanisms currently used (DOCX, 14KB)
- Department self-review (DOCX, 19KB)
- Self-review of School Documentation (DOCX, 14KB)
- Maintaining Consent to Assess (DOCX, 15KB)
- Collecting Evidence - what is happening in my school? (DOCX, 15KB)
- Leading and Managing the gathering of evidence (DOCX, 16KB)
- Managing the Collection of Evidence (Formats A and B) (DOCX, 38KB)
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