Internal Assessment

Internally assessed standards are assessed at school and marked by your teacher or assessor. The marking of these assessments is subject to internal and external moderation processes to ensure that results are accurate.

All internal assessments are subject to the school’s rules and procedures and you are required to comply with these rules at all times. These rules are in place to ensure that assessment is authentic, valid and fair to all students.

• Rules: the rules that you need to follow when completing internal assessments. This includes requirements for authenticity (making sure that the work is your own), meeting deadlines and further assessment opportunities (resubmissions and reassessments).
• Breaches of the Rules. The consequences of not meeting the requirement of the assessment rules.
• Student Appeals: You can appeal an assessment grade or a decision relating to late submission of an assessment.

Moderation

The school has to make sure that the results from you assessments are accurate and reflect the requirements of the standard being assessed. As part of this process all internally assessed standards are internally moderated.

Every assessment task is checked by someone other than the person who wrote the task. The task has to be checked to make sure that it meets the requirements of the standard, that the instructions are clear and that it is suitable for students at Te Kuiti High School.

Once you have completed your assessment it is marked by your assessor. A sample of the marked assessments are then marked by a different teacher to check that the results are consistent with the standard.

Every year a number of standards across all subjects is selected by NZQA for external moderation. A random sample of work for each of these selected standards is sent to NZQA and check marked by national moderators. Results from this external moderation process is then used by the school to refine our judgements.