NCEA Information Evening news and NCEA Policies and Proceedures

The NCEA Information Evening held last week was well supported. Further information on NCEA is due from the NZ Qualification Authority and will be sent home with your sons once it arrives.

This week I highlight how the College manages the authenticity of student work and any breaches of rules. This information is in the NQF booklet, Policies and Procedures, Information for Students and Parents 2017, which I am distributing to students in Yr 11-13 during class visits. Please ask your sons to share this with you.

NCEA policies and procedures

AUTHENTICITY OF STUDENT WORK

(a) Material completed and submitted for assessment must be the student's own work.

(b) For each assessment task students will be required to complete an assessment cover sheet and sign that the work is their own.

(c) If work is found to have been copied the student will receive a 'not achieved' grade for that assignment and no further assessment opportunity will be given.

(d) If the work has been copied from another student then both students will get a 'not achieved' grade for that assignment and no further assessment will be given.

(e) Students who copy work or allow their work to be copied will be referred to the Principal’s Nominee, Mrs Kilpatrick, who will inform parents/caregivers.

(f) Material sourced from reference books/internet must be appropriately acknowledged as detailed on the ‘SBC Referencing Your Work’ handout.

(g) Students should not accept undue assistance from any person in the preparation or submission of work. Students may be given general advice about the nature of adjustments or improvements that could be made to their work.

(h) For items of work which are produced over an extended period, students may be required to keep any plans, drafts, worksheets or logbooks used in the preparation of the work.

Teachers may monitor the development of the work by sighting from time to time the material used by students in their preparation or by discussion of the work with individual students.

Possible Breaches of the Rules include

• Failure to follow instructions
  
• Influencing/assisting/hindering candidates or disrupting the assessment
  
• Submitted material that is not their own
  
• Impersonation
  
• Dishonest practices by a student
  

           o  Attempted to access information or materials or help from another person not permitted in an        assessment
           o Altered returned assessment materials prior to seeking a review
           o Engaged in any other practice that might result in an advantage to the student

Breach of Rules

These are reported to the HOF and Principal’s Nominee (PN), Mrs Kilpatrick, and one or more of the following actions taken

• Student will be interviewed by the PN to clarify the reported conduct
  
• Reprimand the student and award ‘Not Achieved’ for that piece of work
  
• Award a grade of ‘Not Achieved’ for the whole internally assessed component in that standard if total authenticity is not supported.
  
• No further assessment will be available to students who fail to meet the standard on authenticity grounds.
  
• Notify the parents and the House Tutor
  
• Any appeals regarding misconduct should follow the appeals procedures outlined in section 8, with the final appeal being with the Rector whose decision is final.
  

All breaches of the rules are to be submitted to the Principal’s Nominee, including those settled by the teacher.