HETTANZ PD

HETTANZ Professional Learning

Pippa Lawlor – kaiarahitechnology@hettanz.org.nz  

Aims: Assessment and Moderation Focus.

We started with a Kahoot quiz, as a team of three, to help clarify assessment information. Here's what I learnt...

-      NZQA requires all internally assessed work to be kept for one year or when another sample of the students work is available.

-      External moderation by NZQA provides Feed forward. Depersonalise the feedback

-      Digitally generated or stored evidence can be submitted online for external moderation.

-      All work from the previous year must be kept in case it is required for external moderation – No –

-      It is intended that the results of a moderation report should be used in teacher appraisal – FALSE.

-      A further purpose of moderation is to improve assessor judgements

-      External moderation indicates the effectiveness of the school’s internal moderation – True – to pick up discrepancies.

-      All standards need to be internally moderated – True – anything you teach needs to be internally moderated to ensure it is fit for purpose.

-      The internal moderation cover sheet must be used to document internal moderation – FALSE – it’s recommended.

-      The main role of external moderation by NZQA is – Quality assurance

-      Every piece of student work needs to be verified – FALSE

-      Publically available tasks can be used unmodified – FALSE – authenticity in a public domain.

-      A standard will not be selected for external moderation if it has not been assessed in two years – TRUE – no results or grades submitted.

-      If a moderator alters a grade that grade must also be changed in the school’s database – FALSE

-      External moderation provides an assurance that assessment decisions re consistent nationally – TRUE

The above information came from the NZQA Website: Schools and Teachers > moderation > NCEA - The Myths

Assessment

Simon’s Golden circle

WHAT – is the outcome

HOW – is the process

WHY – is the reason

Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman

Thinking fast
System 1 – fast, efficient, heuristic, intuitive, and sufficiently accurate for most assessments

Thinking Slow
System 2 – slow, inefficient, analytic, reasoned, and logic.

Experiential blindness – In a state where you do not recognise the information in front of you.

On your phone, using predictive and going with the first option a few times.

I complete assessments on time because… and keep tapping on the predictive text on the left.

Unpacking a Standard – What do we need?

-      The standard

-      The Clarifications

-      Moderators Report

-      Special notes

-      Assessment specifications/Conditions of assessment

-      The Teaching and Learning Guide

How to find the information you require: NZQA > schools and Teacher > subject resources > ...

Mint Education Website > Contacts > Resources >

Testing and Trialling

Testing > modelled against the specifications (a known set of results. When testing the result will be within the spec's parameters).

Looking > visual checks – directions or orientation

Right side/wrong side > on/off > range on the dial – stitch settings >

Checking seams > measure > what instrument is being used to measure?

Smell > not so much used in Textiles. Iron temp > burning fabric

Taste > not so much used in Textiles – descriptors in Food Tech

Hearing > during construction > is the machine thread up correctly?

Hands > feel/texture/nap/stretch/ease/trimming/clipping out/weight

TESTING

Inserting into the correct spot

Does the closure work?

Include physical and functional features in specifications.

This was a really fantastic opportunity to clarify my understanding of assessment tasks, NZQA information, clarifications and external moderating. Because I haven't had any formal training in NCEA, creating assessment tasks, or moderating, I sometimes feel a bit overwhelmed or like I am failing the students I teach. I've learnt everything on the go, with the support of some colleagues and other fantastic Waikato Textile's teachers.

Today's PL was very valuable in moving forward as a confident teacher of Textiles. I will be keeping in touch with Pippa and looking for more professional learning opportunities.