Future State story
Jane von Dadelszen
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Deputy Chief Executive
New Zealand Qualifications Authority
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Future State is about …
• Embracing a borderless digital context for education
• New Zealand qualifications remaining credible at home and
globally
• New Zealand qualifications staying relevant in an everchanging world
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Future State is…
 Student Centred
 Client Focused
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Education in a borderless world
The global education environment is rapidly changing.
Technology advances, digital natives, the rise of Massive Open
Online Courses (MOOCs), and international expectations are
all changing the learner experience.
At NZQA we are grappling with how we can respond to these
changes and continue to offer client-focused services.
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Quality assurance in a borderless world
NZQA’s Future State work will:
• make qualifications more portable and transferable
• ensure graduates have more consistent skills and
knowledge
• list all prior learning in one easily accessible place
• give New Zealand qualifications greater international
recognition.
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NZQA Future State workstreams
There are three workstreams of particular interest to PTEs:
• The New Zealand Qualifications Framework
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Referencing the NZQF with international frameworks
Assuring the national consistency of graduate outcomes
Accessing the NZQF through the Careers New Zealand website
Credit recognition and transfer and recognition of prior learning
Universal Record of Achievement
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NZQA Future State workstreams
• The Evaluative Quality Assurance Framework (EQAF)
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External evaluation and review enhancements
Integration of EQAF into quality assurance processes
Integration of Mātauranga Māori Evaluative Quality Assurance
Self-assessment case studies
• Infrastructure changes to support Future State
o The Sector Qualifications Register
o Tertiary Information Future State
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International recognition of the NZQF
Aligning the NZQF with the European Qualifications Framework
Referencing the NZQF with the Australian Qualifications Framework
Working with the:
• Thailand Professional Qualifications Institute
• Malaysia Qualifications Agency
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Completing TRoQ
NZQA and the tertiary education sector are meeting the challenge
• NZQA is on track to meet the overall target of 1300 qualifications
at levels 1-6 on the NZQF by the end of 2014.
• There has been a 72% cumulative reduction in the number of
qualification applications received.
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Graph of TRoQ progress
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Assuring consistency of graduate outcomes
Graduates achieve the same outcomes wherever the qualification is
achieved
How well does the evidence demonstrate that graduates of each
programme match the graduate outcomes of the NZ qualification?
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Scheduled consistency reviews with independent reviewers.
Each TEO attends to present their evidence.
TEO evidence is rated sufficient/not sufficient.
Consistency of qualification outcomes is confirmed/not confirmed.
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An enhanced information link with Careers NZ
Helping learners understand career choices related to their
qualifications
NZQA and Careers New Zealand are linking their websites to show
detailed and relevant information about qualifications on the NZQF
and their related employment pathways.
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Credit recognition
and transfer (CRT)
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Recognition of prior
learning (RPL)
Ensuring quality prior learning is not repeated unnecessarily
Credit for outcomes already
achieved is recognised as
credit for comparable
outcomes in another
qualification
Assessment of a student’s
relevant and current knowledge
and skills gained through prior
learning, but not with a formal
credential
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Barriers to recognition (CRT and RPL)
NZQA is exploring:
• the barriers to recognition of CRT and RPL decisions
and
• how to overcome these barriers.
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Quality assuring CRT and RPL decisions
NZQA is exploring how:
• its quality assurance processes can maximise the value and
quality of CRT and RPL and the opportunities for CRT and
RPL.
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Establishing the Universal Record of Achievement
Having a record of all individual learning recognised by NZQA
NZQA is working towards:
• establishing a Universal Record of Achievement that
recognises all quality assured learning an individual has
completed
• having a record that is useful to learners, providers and
employers
• improving NZQA’s sources of educational information.
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Evaluative Quality Assurance Framework (EQAF)
External evaluation and review (EER) enhancements
NZQA is making the changes recommended by the 2012
independent report of the EQAF:
• Performance reporting now includes both Māori and Pasifika
learners.
• Enhanced evaluator training, moderation and sector resources.
• EER process now adapted for English language schools.
• EER categories introduced for ITOs.
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Evaluative Quality Assurance Framework (EQAF)
Self-assessment case studies - learning from each other
• Five education organisations have shared what they have learned
through self-assessment.
• The learnings are useful for a wide range of organisations.
• These case studies can be downloaded from the NZQA website.
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Evaluative Quality Assurance Framework (EQAF)
• EQAF is being integrated into all quality assurance
processes run by the Quality Assurance Division.
• Mātauranga Māori Evaluative Quality Assurance is also
being integrated into quality assurance processes.
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Infrastructure changes to support Future State
The Sector Qualifications Register (SQR)
• NZQA has developed the SQR database to store information
about qualifications and related items listed on the NZQF.
• Any organisation or individual can download specific and targeted
qualification data from the SQR using the SPARQL interface.
• This database is one of three databases being developed to store
data for the education sector.
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Infrastructure changes to support Future State
Tertiary Information Future State
• The Ministry of Education, NZQA, the Tertiary Education
Commission and StudyLink are creating a linked data
infrastructure for the tertiary education sector.
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The world is changing. We’re looking to the future.
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Join us in becoming…
• Borderless
• Digital
• Flexible
• Robust
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Jane von Dadelszen
Deputy Chief Executive
Quality Assurance
New Zealand Qualifications Authority
[email protected]
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