Module 6. Secondary: Assessment Years 9-13

LEARNING INTENTION:
a) To understand the difference between formative and summative assessment;

b) To be able to locate and interpret the core NCEA documents

c) To familiarise myself with effective practices for literacy and or numeracy

SUCCESS CRITERIA:

a) I can explain the difference between formative and summative assessment;

b) I can find the relevant documents for a NCEA internal assessment and use them to make formative assessment decisions (decisions that inform teaching and learning)

c) I know what effective practice looks like for literacy and or numeracy and am ready to implement some of these in my teaching practice

The purpose of assessment

“The primary purpose of assessment is to improve student’s learning and teachers’ teaching as both student and teacher respond to the information that it provides.” NZC p. 39

Assessment is about building a picture over time of a student’s progress and achievement in learning. This information tells how the student learns, as well as what the student learns. The teacher then uses this information to identify the student’s current learning and to provide appropriate support for future learning.

Assessment is a collaborative endeavour between you and your learners – where you both determine what has been learnt and what might be learnt next.

Two principle approaches to Assessment

Formative (Assessment for Learning)
Summative Assessment (Assessment of learning or Credentialling). [NCEA, Cambridge, IB, school created assessments]

Please navigate your way through the assessment pages on Tāhurangi to develop your understanding of each type of assessment with a particular emphasis on Assessment for Learning. You have been provided some starting links (in bullet points above) but we recommend taking some time to explore the website and bookmark relevant (to your practice) links.

Refer to the New Zealand curriculum (p.39-40) to explore some of the key characteristics of effective assessment. (scroll down & expand the School Curriculum Design and Review section and scroll down to find characteristics of effective asessment).

What does Assessment involve?

There are a variety of methods. for gathering and using information about how well students are learning across the curriculum. It is important therefore to prioritise what ākonga should be enabled to do and understand in terms of knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, and dispositions.

Just in time assessment during teaching and learning. This might be diagnostic questions, exit slips, journals, student work that inform next steps in learning. This is often informal.
The assessment resource bank is a useful resource to develop assessment items that align with curriculum levels.
Standardised tests. At year 9 and 10 many schools use e-asTTle or PAT to measure progress across the years in reading and writing and numeracy. [Diagnostic]
National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) is a key focus of summative assessment in NZ secondary schools. Some schools offer Cambridge exams other the International Baccalaureate

NCEA

NCEA is the national qualification for New Zealand schools. Currently NCEA is undergoing change and information is in different places. The two core ones for you are

https://ncea.education.govt.nz/ for the NCEA change programme, Level 1, literacy and numeracy. Some documents and resources are now also on the NZQA site

The NZQA website - for information and documents relating to NCEA Level 2 and Level 3 standards

There are also a lot of myths that exist in relation to NCEA. Exploring these myths is useful learning as you make sense of what is fact and what is not

Explore NCEA Myths

Numeracy & Literacy

From 2024 all students are required to meet the Literacy and Numeracy requirements in order to be awarded an NCEA certificate.

Read what Literacy in NCEA is about and the big ideas more then explore the effective practices that support literacy

Module 6: Assessment, Secondary

This weeks module has 3 tasks.

Task One. Ideas tree

Using the learning from your exploration of the above websites, complete the Ideas Tree:

Instructions:

Make a copy of the Ideas Tree template and rename it (include your name in the title eg SINGH Module 5). Your responses must be brief and where possible in your own words. To add to each box just double click or add your own text box.
Start at the bottom of your tree in the space provided, and provide a definition of assessment in your own words.
Write a brief explanation of the purpose of Formative assessment and Summative assessment.
Give 3 examples of Formative assessment and 2 types of Summative assessment measures .
Briefly describe the implications for classroom practice of the examples you chose.

Once you have completed this, submit to Classroom and move on to task 2.

Task Two: Finding information for an internal achievement standard

Use this template to complete Task 2 and Task 3

Finding internal assessment information.

Goto the NZQA website and choose NCEA subject resources page from the menu
Open your subject page and bookmark it as you can navigate to relevant resources from here.

From your subject page you will explore a Level 2 internal acheivement standard, the clarifications for your chosen standard, the student exemplars( in particular the annotations) and a sample assessment task.

From your NCEA subject resources page , Look to the menu on the right hand side of the page. The [subject] standards and the Assessor support material for internal assessment sections will be used to complete the template

From NCEA on TKI choose your learning area, then level 2 to find a sample assessment task for your chosen standard.

To get an idea of what is required to be awarded the standard have a go at completing one of the assessment tasks for your chosen standard, ( you do not have to submit this for TER) however it is great PLD and gives you an idea of the content and level required to meet the standards.

Task Three: All teachers supporting literacy & numeracy or te reo matatini and pāngarau

For this task you are going to think about how you might support your students towards gaining the literacy and numeracy, or Te reo matatini and Pāngarau co-requisites for their NCEA certificates

Choose either Literacy , Te reo matatini (reading and writing) or Numeracy, Pāngarau as a focus
Download the effective practices for Literacy or effective practices for Numeracy document

What practices are current strengths of your teaching?

What practices might you need to work on?

Choose and download a literacy pedagogical guide for your learning area. Read the document noting teaching strategies to support the big ideas.

What are 3 ways you could support literacy and or numeracy in your learning area in Years 7-10 or your chosen level 2 Internal Achievement standard for this module

Add your response on Page 2 of the template used in Task 2 .

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