Appendix 2: Our survey questionnaire

Resources NZQA provides to teachers

1. How useful are the following NZQA resources for helping you assess students against internally assessed NCEA standards?

	Not useful	Useful	Very useful	No opinion
Moderator newsletters
Clarifications of Standards
National moderator reports
Annotated exemplars of student work
Moderation Best Practice Workshops
Optional teacher selected evidence

2. Do you have any comments about any of these resources?

NZQA's website

3. How easy is it to find the information you want about internal assessment on the NZQA website?

Not easy
Moderately easy
Very easy
No opinion

4. What type of information is difficult to find on NZQA's website?

Moderation reports

5. Have you had some of your assessment work moderated by NZQA since January 2010?

Yes
No

6. Please indicate how much you agree with the following statements about the moderation reports you have received since January 2010

	Disagree	Agree	No opinion
Overall, the moderation reports were useful in providing feedback about my assessment materials
Overall, the moderation reports were useful in providing feedback about my assessment judgements
Overall, the moderation reports were easy to understand
Overall, the moderation reports were written in a tone that was supportive and professional

7. Do you have any comments about the moderation reports you have received since January 2010?

Appealing moderation reports

8. Have you appealed a moderation report since January 2010?

Yes
No

9. How satisfied were you with the outcome of the appeal?

Dissatisfied
Neither dissatisfied nor satisfied
Satisfied

10. Why were you dissatisfied with the outcome of the appeal?

NZQA's support to teachers

11. Overall, do you think that NZQA provides enough support to teachers to help them assess students against internally assessed standards?

Yes
No
No opinion

12. What additional support could NZQA provide to teachers?

About you and your school

We'd like to know a bit about you and your school to see how representative the survey respondents are of the school sector.

13. Where is your school located?

Upper North Island		Upper South Island
Central North Island		Central South Island
Lower North Island		Lower South Island

14. What is the decile level of your school?

Decile 1		Decile 6
Decile 2		Decile 7
Decile 3		Decile 8
Decile 4		Decile 9
Decile 5		Decile 10

15. What is the roll size of your school?

Below 500		1200-1999
500-899		2000+
900-1199		I don't know

16. Which of the following best describes your role?

Senior Management Team
Head of Faculty
Head of Department
Teacher in Charge
Classroom Teacher
Other (please specify)

17. Which subject(s) do you teach to Year 11-13 students?

Accounting	English	Music
Agriculture and horticulture	French	Physical education
Art history	Geography	Physics
Biology	German	Psychology
Business studies	Graphics	Religious studies
Chemistry	Health	Samoan
Chinese	History	Science
Classical studies	Home economics	Social studies
Computing/digital technologies	Information management	Sociology
Cook Islands Māori	Japanese	Spanish
Dance	Latin	Te Reo Māori/Te Reo Rangatira
Drama	Legal studies	Technology
Economics	Mathematics & statistics	Visual arts
Education for sustainability	Media studies
Other (please specify):

Thank you for completing our survey

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18. Do you have any other comments about the support NZQA provides teachers for assessing students against internally assessed standards?

19. Would you like a copy of our report once it is published? Let us know your email address and we'll email you a copy.