These rules come from the NCEA Assessment Information Booklet.

 Please go over these with your daughter:

Authenticity

Otago Girls’ High School follows the procedures laid out by NZQA for NCEA assessments.

All work you submit must be your own and it is your responsibility to provide evidence that it is. If you use someone else’s work without acknowledging it, this is plagiarism and is a form of cheating. This includes information copied from the internet. Using someone else’s work as your own is a serious breach of assessment procedures.

You must meet all deadlines for milestones and drafts, as outlined in your task. If these have not been met, then authenticity cannot be confirmed and a Not Achieved grade may be awarded.

Safeguard yourself by discussing and sharing your work with your teacher along the way in assessments. Use Google Classroom and Google Docs to share and submit work as it is progressing.

Assignments typically require you to sign an Authenticity Declaration stating that the work is your own.

Absence from assessment (Blue assessment form – available from office)

If you are absent on the day an internal assessment is due for handing in ask a family member to bring it to the office by 8.45am with the name of the subject teacher on the front.

If you are absent on the day an internal assessment is being held in the classroom you are not automatically entitled to catch up this assessment. For practical or fieldtrip assessments there may be no catch up opportunity.

A catch up assessment would not be available if:

· You went on holiday

· You chose not to turn up (willful absence)

You need to supply evidence and a completed blue assessment form (available from the office). The blue assessment form needs to be given to your subject teacher who will pass it on to your Dean.

Each case is considered on its own merit.

Assessment dates may change so it is inadvisable to book holidays/activities during term time.

Appeals Policy

All internal assessments undergo moderation each year by either another subject teacher or NZQA.

You are able to lodge an appeal within three school days of receiving a result if you consider the work has been unfairly marked against the standard or marking schedule.

Talk to your subject teacher first and discuss the issue. They may refer you to another teacher if they did not mark the assessment.

If there is still an issue you can then approach the appropriate HOD and appeal the decision. The HOD will investigate and will seek an independent result from the Assessment Appeals Panel. You will be advised of the outcome in writing.

The Appeal Panel’s decision is final.

Technology Problems?

Problems with your computer or other technology are no excuse for not submitting your work on time. Always save your work regularly. You are expected to keep all materials you have used to complete your assignment so you can demonstrate that you had been working on it

Often teachers will require you to submit work at various times during the longer assignments. These milestones help you manage your workload and assist you in completing large assignments on time.

Your options on the day your work is due if you have technology problems:

· If you can’t print it out at home, bring the memory stick into school and print it out at school

· If you can’t print it out at home, email it to your school account and print it at school

· If you can’t print it out at school, email it to your teacher or submit via google classroom. It is your responsibility to ensure they have received it.

Communicate any issues to your teacher before the due date and time.

Resubmissions

If you have made a minor error, the opportunity to improve your grade in an internal assessment without sitting a new assessment is called a resubmission. Your teacher will tell you if you are eligible for resubmission and will give you your assessment back. You need to discover and correct the small mistake yourself. There is only one opportunity for this for each assessment.

Further Assessment Opportunities

Many internal assessments will have the opportunity for a further assessment opportunity, where it is practical. This will involve completing a whole new assessment task. The course and assessment outline issued at the start of the year states whether internals will have a second assessment opportunity or not.