Digital external assessment delivers digital exams to complement the long-standing paper-based approach. We are now looking to identify and take up the new assessment opportunities offered by digitally enabled teaching and learning.
This work will help us consider how we might deliver future digital exams. Twenty-first century assessment can contribute to the equity of NCEA outcomes by engaging students in new ways, stimulating changes in teaching and learning and providing new ways for students to demonstrate their knowledge.
NZQA’s vision for equitable, innovative, credible and robust digital assessment, involves us working with education leaders, teachers, students and education agencies to co-design the approach.
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The following innovation and research work may result in further research, trials, pilots or enhancements to digital external assessment and the way we manage it over the next few years. We will update this section as we progress this work.