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Range statements Huinga

Range statements clarify the standard, or outline the critical evidence for assessment, to make sure that standards have been met. They may also provide context and clarify limits.

Range statements can apply to all outcomes in the standard, an element outcome, or evidence requirements.

Mā te tauākī huinga e tautuhi ai te paerewa, he whakarāpopotonga rānei o te taunaki mōhio ka whakaaroarotia i roto i te aromatawai, e pūmau ai kua tutuki ngā paerewa. Ka tuku i te horopaki, ā, ka tautuhi anō hoki i ngā here. Ka pā ngā tauākī huinga ki ngā hua katoa o te paerewa, te hua o tētahi tīpakonga, ki tētahi paearu mahi kotahi rānei.

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) (Te) Whakaaetanga o ngā Akoranga o Mua

Recognition of prior learning is a process to formally assess a student's relevant and current knowledge and skills gained through prior learning.

It determines if a student has already achieved learning outcomes of a qualification, so the provider can give the student credit towards that qualification.

RPL does not include credit recognition and transfer.

Qualification and Micro-credential Listing and Operational Rules

Ko te huarahi aromatawai ka whakamahi i te taunaki mōhio kāore i oti i mua i te kaiaromatawai, kua kiia e tētahi atu tangata he mahi nā te kaitono me/he taunaki mōhio rānei e ahu mai ana i ngā ngohe, ka mahia me te kore o te akoranga tāpiri i mua; i ētahi wā, karangatia ai "te whakaae, te aromatawai rānei i te āheinga o i nāianei"; ko te tikanga o te karangatanga 'whakaaetanga', ka whakaaetia ngā pūkenga me te mātauranga mā te aromatawai i runga i ngā paearu kua whakaritea (He kōrero anō).

Qualification and Micro-credential Listing and Operational Rules 2022 (external link)

Reconsideration (assessment result) (Te) whakaaro anō

Reconsiderations must be for an externally assessed examination result in a written NCEA or NZ Scholarship examination.

Secondary school candidates may apply for a reconsideration if they believe that a paper has not been marked correctly.

NCEA reviews and reconsiderations

Ko te whakaaro anō e hāngai noa ana ki ngā whakamātautau ā-waho.

Ka āhei ngā ākonga te tono mō te whakaaro anō i runga i te whakapono whaiaro kīhai i tika ngā pūnaha aromatawai.

Reconsideration (external evaluation and review)

Organisations that receive a completed External Evaluation and Review (EER) report can request a reconsideration if there are process failures, or errors of fact or judgement.

Reconsideration of an EER report

Record of Achievement Pūrongo Ako

An individual learner's transcript of the assessment standards, qualifications and credentials they have completed and the credits attached.

NZQA keeps this information in a national database.

New Zealand Record of Achievement

Ko te rārangi o ngā paerewa, ngā paerewa paetae me ngā tohu mātauranga kua tūtuki i tētahi ākonga, ka tukua e NZQA mai i tētahi pātengi raraunga ā-motu.

New Zealand Record of Achievement

Registered assessor Kaiaromatawai kua rēhitatia

An assessor registered by a national standards-setting body to assess learners. They often go into workplaces to assess learners.

Ko tētahi kaiaromatawai kua rēhitatia e tētahi whakaruruhau kua whakamanatia hei aromatawai i ngā ākonga. Ka whakahaeretia te aromatawai i te wāhi mahi.

Registration (of private training establishments) Rēhitatanga (o ngā whare whakangungu tūmataiti)

A quality assurance process before a private training establishment (PTE) can officially open. The registration process makes sure a PTE can provide a sound and stable learning environment, and quality training.

PTEs must be registered with NZQA before they can deliver NZQA-approved education products.

Ko tētahi hātepe e hua ai ka āhei tētahi whare whakangungu tūmataiti te tuku i tētahi wāhi ako pūmau, pai hoki.

Kia rēhitatia ngā whakahere i mua i te whakamanatanga.

Registration (of unit standards, achievement standards) Rēhitatanga (o ngā paerewa, ngā paerewa paetae, me ngā tohu mātauranga)

A quality assurance process to make sure assessment, skill and achievement standards have the appropriate support from stakeholders and meet NZQA's standards and requirements.

Only registered standards are in the Directory of Assessment and Skill Standards. 

Directory of Assessment and Skill Standards Listing and Operational Rules

Ko tētahi tukanga e whakapūmau ana i ngā paerewa me ngā tohu mātauranga huri noa i te motu ki ā ngā ture whakahaere o te Rārangi Paetae Aromatawai 2011, kua rite hoki ki ngā whakaritenga toi o NZQA; ka mutu te hātepe nei ina whakauruhia ana ngā paerewa me ngā tohu mātauranga ki roto i te pātengi raraunga o te Rārangi Paetae Aromatawai; ka arotakengia ā-wā ngā paerewa me ngā tohu mātaurangi.

Directory of Assessment and Skill Standards Listing and Operational Rules 2022 (external link)

Reporting (Te) tuhi pūrongo

Telling NZQA about the credits, standards, qualifications and credentials a learner has completed and earned.

Ko te tuku kōrero e pā ana ki te ahunga whakamua me ngā whakatūtukitanga o tētahi ākonga.

Review (assessment result) Arotake

A secondary school candidate can ask for a review of their exam material if they believe there was a processing error (e.g. a section of work not marked, the incorrect transfer of grades or marks).

You must request a review in writing within a specified timeframe.

Also see Reconsideration (assessment result).

NCEA reviews and reconsiderations

Ki te whakapono tētahi kaitono kāore i tika te tukanga aromatawai mō āna mahi i tāpaetia ai mō te aromatawai ā-waho (hei tauira, kāore i mākahia tētahi wāhanga o āna mahi, i hē te whakawhiti o ngā tohu taumata, o ngā māka rānei), ka āhei ia te tono mō te arotake. Ko te tono arotake, kia matua tuhia, ā, i roto anō hoki i te wā ka whakaritea.

Ko ngā kaitono ka tono i te arotake, e kore e taea te whakaaro anō.

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See Record of Achievement.

New Zealand Record of Achievement