Assessment Moderation

You’ll learn how to apply moderation principles and practices to ensure assessments are valid, consistent, fair, and sufficient.

You’ll also learn how to support fair outcomes for learners and develop your own practice as a moderator.

Learners who successfully complete this course will be able to:

• Apply assessment moderation principles to assessment design.
• Moderate assessment decisions and practices, and provide effective feedback.
• Evaluate assessment practice to identify and plan continuous improvement activity.

Study pathway options

If you have unit standard ‘11551 Moderate Assessment’ you can apply to have this unit standard cross-credited to ATT505 Moderate Assessment.

You can find out more about cross-crediting here.

Once ATT501 Introduction to Adult and Tertiary Teaching and ATT502 Facilitation Skills for Adult and Tertiary Teaching are completed, learners in this situation can then complete ATT504 Design and Create Assessments to achieve the required credits towards the New Zealand Certificate in Adult and Tertiary Teaching (Level 5) (NZ2993).

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed

Computer and internet requirements

This course is delivered online, so you will access your course material and submit assessments online. Our online courses may include reading, videos, quizzes or activities, and you may need to download content.

For online learning you need:

• Access to a laptop or desktop computer
• Reliable internet and data plan.  

If you are unsure if your current computer, Windows or internet access will allow you to study online, please contact us before applying to enrol. 

Find out more about online learning