Assessment and Examination Rules and Procedures for Secondary Schools - 2010
5.2.2 NZQA Managed Systems
Managing National Assessment
- Managing National Assessment (MNA) is the term used to describe the processes for achieving valid, fair, accurate and consistent internal assessment in schools. It is a partnership between schools and NZQA by which NZQA checks, evaluates and reports on schools' processes and systems to ensure that internal assessment decisions and systems remain effective.
- MNA provides a transparent reporting system to schools on the quality of systems to assure assessor decisions.
- MNA for NQF qualifications has two components
- Annual external moderation of assessment materials and assessor decisions for an NZQA selected sample of internally assessed standards and randomly selected samples of student work across all curriculum areas selected according to the school’s documented random selection process.
- An external check of a school's assessment systems and MNA Report approximately every three years to ensure that assessment is valid, fair, consistent, reliable, accurate and to the national standard.
- Annual external moderation of assessment materials and assessor decisions for an NZQA selected sample of internally assessed standards and randomly selected samples of student work across all curriculum areas selected according to the school’s documented random selection process.
- Where external moderation or the assessment systems check reveals problems, NZQA may as appropriate
- require further material to be submitted for moderation
- conduct a further systems check
- conduct an investigation
- begin non-compliance procedures.
- require further material to be submitted for moderation
5. School-based Assessment Rules and Procedures
5.1 Accreditation Requirements
5.1.1 Base Scope Accreditation for Schools (BSAS)
5.2 Moderation Requirements
5.2.1 Industry Training Organisation Managed Systems
5.2.2 NZQA Managed Systems
5.2.2.1 School Assessment Systems Check and MNA Report
5.2.2.2 External Moderation
5.2.2.3 Non-compliance
Last updated: 27 January 2010