NZQA Moderation Workshop: PE

NZQA PE moderator best practice workshop.

1. The presenter went over a snapshot of the moderation process.

• Check the coversheet.
• Check the assessors judgement
• Look at the task, even TKI tasks, fill in the gap tasks can only ever be descriptive, not keen on quantitative schedules (which many of the TKI example tasks are). They pointed out that the TKI example tasks have been around for a long time and many need to be rewritten but at the moment no one has funding to do this.
• Look at the assessment schedule, the most common problem is the lack of examples of learner responses. It is a requirement to include these.
  

2. A new web page has been developed for each subject area which provides links to lots of useful information in particular the Clarifications of internally assessed standards document.
PE page link
Health page link

3. The next part of the workshop involved working through the moderation of five PE standards a mixture of level one, two and three. We worked in small groups and moderated three examples of student work and then checked our moderation against that of the school that provided the work and the NZQA moderator’s judgement. It was a useful process but unfortunately none of the standards worked on is provided at TCS. Some tips gather in the process:

• It is good practice to gather exemplars which can be referred to, this helps to maintain consistence over different years.
• Explain needs to be how and why
• It is considered good practice to provide the student with a copy of the NCEA standard.
• When the standard has two bullet points then the assessor can make a holistic judgement within the bullet point but not across more than one bullet point.
• Look for positive and negative examples in student evaluations.
  
  Overall comment
  The new web pages look like they will be useful and the clarification of internally assessed standards documents will provide guidance for assessors.