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Assessment Details

NEMP (National Education Monitoring Project) – Viewing
Assessment Area English-Viewing and presenting
Year level 4, 8
NZ origin? Yes
Standardised? Yes
Administration to individual or group? Group
What does it assess? A range of assessment tasks in Listening and Viewing is provided from the rounds of testing between 1996 and 2010.
Purpose The tasks: allow comparison of the performance of a school’s students with national results on some aspects of the curriculum; provide models of good assessment practice; can be modified to suit a school’s own purposes; are highly valid and useful for assessing student learning.
Validity Items are tested for validity.
Reliability There is evidence of inter-marker reliability.
What measures does it give? Results can be measured against the results for representative samples of New Zealand school students at successive points in time.
How long does it take to administer? Administration times vary according to task.
How much training is needed? Instructions are given for each task.
Scoring and data analysis Scoring is simple, and results can be compared with national findings.
Does it provide 'what next' strategies? No
Is it available in te reo Maori? Yes , a kit of Access Tasks in te reo was sent to every kura and bi-lingual school at the beginning of 2008.
Cost? No cost for the online material, available on the NEMP website.
Author, date of publication and publisher The Educational Assessment Research Unit of the University of Otago was contracted by the Ministry of Education to write NEMP tasks from 1995 to 2010. The project has been replaced by the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA).
Availability

The NEMP reports page gives access to all the curriculum areas. Click into the area and year, then into the relevant strand, to find a selection of tasks. A selection of released NEMP tasks in English, mathematics, and science is also available on the ARBs website. Registration required.

Although NMSSA tasks have not been made available for teachers, the reports from the monitoring study make interesting assessment reading. The summaries of findings are the more accessible documents.

Further Information

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