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NZQA: hide & seek

By Catherine Woulfe In Education

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12th December, 2013
NCEA results will be out in three weeks, but they will be more difficult than ever to scrutinise. Citing privacy concerns, the New Zealand Qualifications Authority has removed from its website an interactive tool that in past years allowed quick, easy and highly detailed analysis of NCEA results. The tool did not name any students. But it let the public (including journalists and academics) unpick what might be behind rising pass rates. It showed, for example, whether the pass rate in mathematics exams had changed year to year, and whether ...

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