Rubrics, Assessment and eProctoring in Education

With so many classes online during the pandemic—many of them taught by professors still struggling to figure out how to teach in the format—student

Our institutional and/or course policies aren’t doing much to stop cheating in college. How we get students to realize how much cheating hurts them? It has nothing to do with whether they're caught, but rather the personal consequences.

When it comes to accessing online learning materials, university students don't think much about whether their downloads might amount to piracy or copyright infringement.

NZQA’s findings from the 2017 NCEA Digital Trials and Pilots evaluation are being used to inform the 2018 project, as the organisation works towards having NCEA examinations available online by 2020.

As part of the Digital Trials and Pilots project, feedback was sought from the students, teachers, markers and examination centre managers who participated in the Trials and Pilots. This feedback has been valuable in providing insight into their experience, which is already informing the next steps NZQA takes with digital assessment in collaboration with schools and the wider education sector.
Feedback from students to the surveys shows we are on the right track. These are good indicative findings on which to build our future work.

Contrary to some reports, there is no new English language test for international students - the government is simply expanding standards already being met by most providers.