Mātauranga Māori constitutes concepts and principles that are richly detailed, complex, and fundamental to Māoridom. It is important to remember that the practice of these are wider and more varied than their use within the proposed NCEA Achievement Standards and supporting documentation.

We also recognise that the cultures, languages, and identities of the Pacific Islands are diverse, varied, and unique. Therefore the Pacific concepts, contexts, and principles that have been incorporated within NCEA Achievement Standards may have wide-ranging understandings and applications across and within the diversity of Pacific communities. It is not our intention to define what these concepts mean but rather offer some ways that they could be understood and applied within different subjects that kaiako and students alike can explore.

The intent of the Standard

The purpose of this Standard is for ākonga to use a selected inquiry or intention to problem-solve, build on visual ideas and refine technical and pictorial conventions. They will work towards creating successful outcomes to form a cohesive and sustained body of related works in response to an art making proposition.

Ākonga will use creative thinking processes and demonstrate understanding of creative intent through purposeful art making and exploration. They will use established conventions to learn about processes, materials, and techniques to create effects and communicate ideas. In this Achievement Standard, they will have the opportunity to apply their ideas, feelings, beliefs, political viewpoints, culture, and personal perspectives, and create artworks as a representation, a response, or a means of self-expression.

Making reliable judgements

Ākonga will have engaged in developing their work using processes, materials, and techniques (PMT) from established practice. They will create a related body of work that reflects an artmaking proposition.

At higher levels of achievement, ākonga will use an iterative process of art making to resolve their ideas. This includes editing, selecting, developing, and clarifying their initial work to reflect their intended purpose.

Collecting evidence

Note that evidence for this Standard cannot be used as evidence for Achievement Standard 1.2 (Produce resolved artwork appropriate to established art making conventions).

The physical portfolio should be used to present a body of work in its original state. Original works should be submitted where possible. Digital submissions must be fit for assessment through a screen-based medium, and allow 3D media to be assessed.

Ākonga may choose to work in a variety of media or in a single media.

When ākonga are collating work to present on the board, they should select works that have been resolved through a development process. There is no set or prescribed layout for how the works should appear on the folio, however if artworks have been created to be viewed in a sequence then the layout should reflect this.

Possible contexts

This assessment values the resolution of final works that have been developed as a process of exploration, experimentation, and development.

Ideas demonstrated in the investigative Achievement Standard 1.3 (Explore Visual Arts processes and conventions to inform own art making), can be further developed for this Standard.

Standard Exclusions

This Standard has one or more exclusions, or Standards that assess the same or similar learning. These Standards are excluded against one another to prevent assessing the same learning twice. You can only use credits gained from one of these standards towards your NCEA qualification.

Find out more about the NCEA Level 1 Exclusions List.