The role of Principal's Nominee
The Principal's Nominee is a staff member nominated by the Principal of a school with consent to assess. The Principal's Nominee is nominated every year.
Other school staff may assist the Principal’s Nominee, but it is the Principal’s Nominee's responsibility to make sure those staff members carry out their duties appropriately, and for all communication with NZQA.
The Principal’s Nominee will carry out the following duties.
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The Principal's Nominee's duties
Quality assurance, reporting, ensuring integrity
- Maintaining and monitoring quality assurance practices within the school to ensure the validity and credibility of assessment for qualifications
- Reporting internal assessment results for all qualifications after internal moderation has been completed
- Ensuring the integrity of assessment data submitted to NZQA, including candidate eligibility, reported results and candidate entries for external assessment.
Find out more about internal moderation
Key communications with NZQA on behalf of the school and candidates
- Ensuring that assessment data including candidate information is forwarded to NZQA to meet published deadlines
- Considering and making applications to NZQA on behalf of candidates for special assessment conditions
- Ensuring that candidate fees (for international students) are paid in full to NZQA to meet published deadlines
- Managing derived grade applications to NZQA on behalf of candidates
- Responding to NZQA communications and requests for information
- Facilitating NZQA visits and reviews.
Find out more about derived grades
External moderation, breaches and assessment policies and processes
- Ensuring the school engages in and complies with the external moderation process and that issues identified by the external moderation process are addressed in a timely manner
- Developing and managing the school’s breaches of the rules for internal assessment, and appeals process
- Maintaining the currency of the school’s assessment policy and procedures to reflect NZQA requirements and communicating them to staff, students and families.
Find out more about external moderation for secondary schools/kura
Refer to our Assessment Rules for schools and TEOs
Smooth running of external examinations and assessments
- Ensuring the smooth running of external examinations - by communication with school staff, and students and by working with your examination centre manager
- Ensuring the availability of suitable accommodation and equipment for the conduct of all external assessments.