This document summarises the activity and achievement of New Zealand's secondary school [National Certificates of Educational Achievement] NCEA candidates since the full implementation of the NCEA system in 2004. In 2010, the NCEA system of school qualifications saw its seventh year of full implementation. The achievement data from these seven years provide an opportunity, unprecedented in the history of secondary education in New Zealand, to analyse trends in candidates' attainment of qualifications since implementation. Section 1 of this report provides a series of graphs and tables showing
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This document summarises the activity and achievement of New Zealand's secondary school [National Certificates of Educational Achievement] NCEA candidates since the full implementation of the NCEA system in 2004. In 2010, the NCEA system of school qualifications saw its seventh year of full implementation. The achievement data from these seven years provide an opportunity, unprecedented in the history of secondary education in New Zealand, to analyse trends in candidates' attainment of qualifications since implementation. Section 1 of this report provides a series of graphs and tables showing comparisons of candidates' attainment of NCEA and Scholarship qualifications over time. Also presented in the first section is a detailed analysis of the performance of the cohort of students that commenced Year 11 in 2008. The data in this section allow for comparison of the performance of students grouped by gender, ethnicity and, as a proxy for their socio-economic level, the decile ratings of the schools they attend. In 2010 there were encouraging increases in attainment of NCEA qualifications over 2009 across all NCEA levels. In particular, the attainment gaps between Maori and Pasifika candidates on one hand, and European and Asian candidates on the other hand, reduced at all NCEA levels. Section 1 also provides data on New Zealand Scholarship, a system of assessment designed to recognise top-level performance. New Zealand Scholarship attracts increasing numbers of entries each year. In 2010 the performance gap between males and females in New Zealand Scholarship closed. Male and female candidates gained similar numbers of Scholarships, but males earned the majority of Outstanding Scholarships. Section 2 provides information on various aspects of internal and external assessment in schools. Also presented in this section are various administrative data; for example, on breaches of rules for external assessments and on reviews and reconsiderations of examination results.
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