National External Moderation for Tertiary Education Organisations
Moderation
The purpose of moderation is to provide assurance that assessment is fair, valid and at the national standard, and that the assessors are making consistent judgements about learner performance.
| Internal Moderation | is the responsibility of each accredited organisation. It may occur among assessors at a single site, at a providers multiple sites or among an Industry Training Organisation's registered workplace assessors. Internal moderation helps to ensure consistency of assessment within an accredited organisation over time and between assessors.
Internal moderation processes must be embedded in the quality management system of every TEO. |
| National external moderation systems | ensure that accredited organisations are conducting assessment that is nationally consistent and at the national standard. Every National Qualification Framework (NQF) registered standard is attached to an Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The Moderation Information in the AMAP sets out the national external moderation system for the standard. It is the responsibility of the accredited organisation to ensure that they engage in the national external moderation system for standards for which they are assessing and reporting credits. |
Role of the TEO Moderation Liaison
Each TEO is required to nominate a Moderation Liaison person.
- The Moderation Liaison's role is to coordinate the organisation's moderation of NZQA managed standards.
- All moderation enquiries should be directed through the Moderation Liaison to TAM.
- The Moderation Liaison ensures assessment materials and samples of assessed learner work are sent to the designated moderator.
- The Moderator sends moderation reports to the Moderation Liaison..
- The Moderation Liaison circulates correspondence to the appropriate people within their organisation.
Kāhui
Kāhui are moderation meetings held throughout the year to moderate assessment materials and learner samples for the following moderation systems: Tikanga-a-iwi, Te Reo Māori and Te Reo Rangatira.
Five Kāhui will be held in 2009.
If your organisation is being moderated in one of these systems, it is important to note that the submission date for these systems may be different to that of the overall submission date shown on your moderation plan.
The Kāhui submission date for your organisation can be found on your moderation plan.
A separate letter outlining the process for submitting materials for moderation by Kāhui will be sent to your organisation after moderation plans have been sent.
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Page updated: 05 July 2009