NZQA should fess up to government, not load up teachers
Posted by: Flying Pig
on 07, May, 2010 
NZQA should not think that they can load teachers with the consequences of NZQA staff cock-ups. The worst thing about NZQA's management of this business of their under-shooting in schools' moderation plans this year is that when they found their mistake and asked schools from the June moderation round on to send in extra work, they didn't admit that this was as a result of their error. They just put it to schools as if it was a routine request.
NZQA fessed up only because PPTA followed up the issue after being alerted by a school. And if PPTA hadn't done a press release about it, the government wouldn't know about this cock-up by NZQA.
And why should the schools in the second half of the year send in more moderation because schools in the first half of the year sent in less? Whose fault was that? NZQA's.
When are NZQA, MOE and ERO going to learn that loading more and more work onto schools simply ties teachers up in pointless administration, and gets in the way of schools focusing on what the government keeps saying they want them to focus on, i.e. improving student achievement?
I think schools who are being asked to send in extra standards for moderation should simply refuse, and say that they will happily send in the standards that were listed in their original Moderation Plan but no more. So NZQA doesn't meet its 10% target this year? Who cares? Not teachers.
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Brett
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It's much worse for small schools Last year my Dept (ONE teacher) did 21 internal standards-This year, due to a year level going on corespondence and other factors (2 students) we will only do 10. Yet I have been given a list of 11 standards to be moderated-over 100%!! Even before the additions I had 7. Other teachers at the school are SOLELY responsible for getting in 10 and 9 moderated standards because they cover several subjects. |
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Jzani
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10%? You're joking We have just been informed of the extra standards requested for moderation. In our department, we are doing 33 internal standards this year. The original plan was to moderate 14 of these (42%), but the four additional requests takes this right up to 54% of standards. We are also expected to internally moderate 50% of standards, why don't we just do them all every year? Not like we have anything more important (like educating young minds) to get on with. |
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2twins
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NZQA stuffup my workload Having just recieved the extended list for moderation - 2 extra standards for most teachers - I wonder why this load isn't spread back to the schools in the earlier submissions as well. Why not get them to do an extra submission of another standard, then I'll do one extra as well and life would more managable |
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