NATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW ZEALAND ( The NATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT (NCEA) is a new system of educational assessment implemented by the New Zealand Ministry of Education since 2002, replacing the current examination system and traditional transcripts with a national certificate of educational assessment (NCEA). The school results of secondary school students across New Zealand will be presented in a new light.

The NCEA has been in the planning stages since 1997, with Level 1 assessments beginning in 2002. NCEA started the program in 1997 and began Level 1 in 2002, followed by Level 2 and Level 3 in 2003 and 2004. NCEA is one of the products of a series of education reforms in New Zealand, and it is also a unique education brand in New Zealand.

NCEA was designed out of a reflection on "marks": in the traditional system, students would receive a mark on their report card at the end of the semester, such as 80 in Physics. However, what does this number tell us? Besides knowing that it is lower than a 90 and higher than a 70, what else does it mean? For example, if a student gets an 80 in physics, is he more suited to the mechanical department or the optoelectronics department?

To put it simply, NCEA is New Zealand high school student's report card for three years. This report card is not just a bunch of numbers, but also a "learning history", recording the student's achievements in the three years of high school. In the case of English (and in this case, Mandarin), for example, future employers or university professors will be able to tell clearly whether a student who is "good at English" is a good speaker or a good writer. And good writing students, specializing in thesis or lyric essays? Is it good at writing poetry or fiction, etc.?

The specific practice of assessment is that the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) is responsible for, according to the learning areas of the syllabus, in each subject, students need to learn knowledge or skills, specific list of various "achievement standards" (Achievement Standard), and then according to Based on the nature of these achievement standards, the assessment method and the number of credits for each assessment are determined. There are two major types of assessment, one is the internal assessment, such as a speech or book report in English class, a performance in music class, a performance in drama class, an experiment or research report in physics, etc. The other is the national examination at the end of the year, which is a traditional paper-and-pencil test, called the External Assessment. The other type of national examination held at the end of the year is the traditional paper-and-pencil test, called "external assessment" (External Assessment).

The name of NCEA is very simple, it is Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3. In other words, many students will not be able to leave their secondary school or vocational school or college. In other words, many students will leave secondary school after Year 11.