National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA)
While the trials of achievement-based assessment in the late 1980s and early 1990s were relatively non-controversial, the replacement of that form of assessment with unit standards in the mid-1990s, and then with the achievement standards of the NCEA since 2002, have been less well-received by teachers. As recently as 2006, in the NZCER national survey of secondary schools, only 59 per cent of secondary teachers agreed or strongly agreed with the statement: “I am supportive of NCEA.”
Clearly there is room for further work to ensure that New Zealand has an indigenous qualification that the profession supports and that has credibility with the wider community. PPTA Annual conference is where teachers will be discussing The NCEA: A pathway to the future you can access the paper on the Annual Conference papers webpage.
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