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How Chinese higher education students perceive and engage in self-assessment within the Integrated Quality Assessment (IQA) system: Threats to the validity of IQA self-assessment

The Integrated Quality Assessment (IQA) in China is an officially mandated system that uses student self-assessment in addition to information provided by tests and examinations and other sources to...

| Year published: 2021 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Teacher-driven versus student-initiated peer review: A story of differential student engagement

Cognisant of the benefits and shortcomings of peer review in the enhancement of student learning, the current study investigated how Year 12 students engaged in this activity. Specifically, attention...

| Year published: 2021 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Shared understanding: Using a conceptual model to support the assessment of NCEA group composing

This article considers the assessment of individuals’ contributions to collaborative creative groups. It draws on research into collaborative group composing and its relationship to a secondary...

| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Commentary: Towards defining, assessing and reporting against national standards for literacy and numeracy in New Zealand

Author(s): Alison Gilmore, Charles Darr

The New Zealand government’s Crusade for Literacy and Numeracy stipulates that national standards will be set in literacy and numeracy; that every primary and intermediate student will be assessed...

| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Māori and Pacific secondary student and parent perspectives on achievement, motivation and NCEA

Author(s): James Graham

New Zealand’s previous examination-based secondary assessment system can be viewed as encompassing cultural values presenting unfair challenges for indigenous and other nonmajority students. The...

| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

An investigation into online moderation

The purpose of this paper is to understand how teachers’ identities as assessors in a standards-referenced assessment system may be developed through their participation in online social moderation...