[ Video Resource ]

• Title: Achievement Standard 1.3 Unpacking
• Description: NZSL AS 1.3 Unpacking
• Video Duration: 5 minutes
• Video URL: https://player.vimeo.com/video/840695106
• Transcript: This video is a translation in New Zealand Sign Language of the Unpacking of Achievement Standard 1.3.

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

This Achievement Standard assesses the student’s ability to demonstrate understanding of New Zealand Sign Language texts related to everyday contexts, for example, vlogs, instructions, event invitations, signed conversations, and signed storyboards. Students will find and combine information, identify key points, and use context to understand unfamiliar texts.

Students will demonstrate their understanding in New Zealand Sign Language or written in English or te reo Māori. The information in the various texts can be similar or overlapping, giving students the opportunity to understand content, make links, and draw conclusions, even if their comprehension skills vary across the different modes of communication.

The format of this Standard allows students to interact with information in an authentic way that reflects life within and outside of school. It allows students to demonstrate problem-solving skills in authentic contexts by bringing different information together from a variety of texts to support their understanding. This is a highly valued and important skill that will support students to navigate and make sense of the world around them in any language.

This Achievement Standard draws on all of the Big Ideas and several pieces of the Significant Learning:

• be exposed to, practise, and enjoy experimenting with a wide range of visual-gestural New Zealand Sign Language
• explore how language and culture affect, and work together in, communication
• explore language commonly used to express personal information, ideas, and opinions in everyday contexts with reference to events or experiences in the present, as well as the past or future
• engage with, and make meaning of, short, straight-forward text types
• acquire simple linguistic strategies and basic knowledge of how to use resources to make meaning of unfamiliar language.

Making reliable judgements

Students must demonstrate understanding of the context and purpose of the signed texts presented in the assessment. At all levels, they need to demonstrate knowledge of New Zealand Sign Language including vocabulary and grammar (including grammatical aspects such as handshape, orientation, location, movement, sign types as well as non-manual signals) to understand the context and purpose of New Zealand Sign Language signed texts.

Students achieving at higher levels will submit evidence containing more detail and showing a higher level of understanding by engaging more comprehensively, when responding to the signed text and questions, to connect information, ideas, and opinions. Students will also demonstrate increasing levels of precision in their communication, with fewer inconsistencies impacting overall communication.

Collecting evidence

This external Achievement Standard is assessed by digital submission, which means that the provision of the tasks and grading of evidence will be carried out by NZQA, but that the assessment will be administered by teachers.

Refer to the External Assessment Specifications for further information.

Possible contexts

Everyday contexts relate to events or experiences that are familiar and relevant to the student.

Examples include:

• school
• family
• hobbies
• holidays.