This assessment should take place after a significant portion of the year’s teaching and learning programme has been delivered. Students should have had the opportunity to practice writing and speaking and to receive formative feedback on many occasions before being evaluated against this Achievement Standard. 

Students should also have been given the opportunity to learn about ideas and events related to the vitality of reo Māori. 

Students may craft their language production during class or at home over a period of time. Four to six hours is the suggested assessment duration, but this may be adapted to suit local circumstances.  

Students may refer to class notes, study materials, and dictionaries (digital or hardcopy) in the development of their language production. The use of electronic translators or AI is not permitted. They must not plagiarise pre-existing language samples, eg the indicative examples in the Assessment Schedule. Teachers must be satisfied that the work submitted as evidence for this Achievement Standard is the student’s own. 

Teachers are reminded that submissions should consist of one piece of work. The submission may be in spoken reo Māori, written reo Māori, or a combination of both. If spoken only is chosen, students may draft written scripts to prepare for the assessment and use this to support the delivery of their spoken evidence. The drafted written scripts will not be assessed. Memorisation of language content is not a requirement of this Achievement Standard. If an equivalent combination of both is chosen, the spoken and written language content must be complementary to each other — students will not fulfill the criteria for this Assessment Activity by simply reading aloud what is also to be submitted as written evidence. 

Teachers may not provide any feedback, edit, or make corrections to student work during the assessment, or before the work is handed in. Teachers may not provide any scaffolding, instruction or teaching, or other forms of guidance during the assessment event. The only feedback permitted is in relation to the requirements of the Achievement Standard, not the content of a student’s work. 

Students will be assessed exclusively on the language quality of their work — this includes the readability of any handwritten language components. They will not be assessed on the technical or artistic merits of their presentation format.