National Standards consistency framework development
This initiative supports the development of a framework to help teachers be consistent in how they moderate students’ work in relation to the National Standards.
To reach an overall judgment of students’ work against the National Standards, teachers must pull together evidence of students’ performance on many criteria from a variety of sources, ranging from observing them in class to how well they do in asessments.
The framework will establish a nationally consistent approach to how teachers form overall judgments of students’ work against the standards. It will also improve the existing system for how teachers moderate students’ work.
This will support the validity and reliability of data about National Standards. This, in turn, will produce a more rigorous system to help schools and the Government make decisions about National Standards and determine priorities.
Specifically, the framework will provide:
- A set of markers for students’ rate of progress in gaining knowledge and skills in reading, writing and mathematics
- A way for teachers to collate the entire set of evidence for reading, writing and mathematics for each student and help them make an overall judgment of the student’s progress
- A way to quantify students’ progress in a meaningful, accurate and nationally consistent way
- Tools to create reports for school boards and trustees
- A way to capture data for national monitoring.
For more information about National Standards, go to the Ministry of Education’s National Standards page.