Te Iti a Taranga

Assessment of distance learning - general guidance

Guidelines and assessment support material for kaiako

Kaiako can facilitate the assessment of distance learning against these internal standards with guidance. Assessment Guidelines and Assessment Support Material are provided for Kaiako to create assessment tasks and gather evidence required for each standard.

The Assessment Support Materials contain assessor checklists and kaiako assessment schedules where relevant.

Access and equity

For assessment purposes, the assessor will need to consider issues around access and equity for some ākonga.

Ākonga may need a camera and or phone and the internet to upload recorded evidence to a platform for the assessor to access.

These standards are ideal for the assessment of distance learning, where ākonga can submit written and visual evidence through digital platforms such as google docs or record and discuss live via ZOOM (or similar platform) to assessor.

Ensuring authenticity

The assessor would need to ensure a range of strategies are in place to ensure the authenticity of the work is completed e.g. the referencing of all research material, relevant checklists (see Assessment Support Material.

Research requirements are ideal for the assessment of distance learning, where ākonga could submit written and/or visual evidence through digital platforms such as google docs or record and discuss live via ZOOM (or similar platform) to assessor.