Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko Common Assessment Tasks will be available online. Schools will download the CATs, test them, and make them available to individual candidates at the start of the scheduled assessment session(s).
Schools must choose when their candidates will undertake the DT&HM CATs and inform NZQA via an online form. Schools may choose dates within the last two weeks of Term 3 or the first two and a half weeks of Term 4. Schools may assess all three levels on one day, or may choose separate dates for each level. Schools must not split an assessment level over two or more days.
Candidates must complete DT&HM CATs under supervision. Candidate assessment responses may be sampled digitally to test authenticity requirements are met.
Each candidate’s assessment responses will be uploaded to an NZQA drive as a single portable document format (.pdf) file. NZQA markers will mark an exact copy of the file. The uploaded file and the marked file will remain online until the completion of the reconsideration process.
The common assessment tasks will ask candidates to respond to a series of prompts or questions drawn from the achievement standards. Candidates should aim to write between 800 and 1500 words.
In each following year, the questions, prompts, and range of samples may change.
3 Credits
The digital outcome must have been developed by the student.
The step-up in the levels of achievement.
Achieved – reflective analysis
Students will submit a reflective report summarising their digital outcome by detailing how and why they developed their digital outcome the way they have. Students must identify characteristics from their outcome and link them back to the decisions made in the development process.
Merit – in-depth reflective analysis
Students will reflect on their digital outcome by breaking down their decision-making process and explaining in depth how the knowledge and skills they acquired guided the development of each part of the process.
Excellence – insightful reflective analysis
The student summarises the development process and describes the digital outcome. The student can also identify where their development process required or did not require improvements. The student shows insight by critiquing how the development process could be improved and how these changes would result in an improved digital outcome.