eMCAT Questionnaire
Thank you very much for taking part in the eMCAT. I hope it was an interesting and rewarding experience for
you and your students. As you are aware, the eMCAT was a pilot, and NZQA hoped to learn a significant
amount about using a computer for assessments. To that end we need quality feedback from the participants
so that we can fully evaluate the pilot and make some decisions about the future.
The students have already had an opportunity to provide feedback and this questionnaire is an opportunity for
teachers to do the same.
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Please answer all the questions and where required provide a reason for your answer
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In the following questions, MCAT refers to the Maths Common Assessment Task (The ordinary paperbased examination used to assess level 1 Maths 91027)
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eMCAT means Electronic Maths Common Assessment Task – using the computer to sit the practice
examination for level 1 Maths 91027.
Which school do you teach at:
How many students at your school undertook the eMCAT?
Question 1
Please rate the communication you received about the eMCAT.
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Comment on your response: Click here to enter your comment.
What suggestions can you give to improve the communication? Click here to enter your
comment.
Question 2
The aim of the PD provided by Education perfect was to familiarise you with the eMCAT.
How effective was the PD given to you by Education Perfect?
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What suggestions can you give to improve the PD? Click here to enter your comment.
Question 3
How effective did your students find the familiarisation and practice activities?
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Comment on your response. Outline any significant issues your students had: Click here
to enter your comment.
What suggestions can you give to improve the familiarisation and practice activities?
Click here to enter your comment.
Question 4
Answering a mathematics question in a computer based assessment is very different
from answering a question in a paper based assessment because the student has to use
a cursor, mouse and keyboard? Do you think the eMCAT was just as effective in
enabling the student to demonstrate their mathematical thinking as a paper based
assessment would be?
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Comment on your response. Outline any significant issues your students had: Click here
to enter your comment.
Question 5
Question 6
What changes to the eMCAT would you recommend? Click here to enter your comment.
The eMCAT “marked” the student work and provided a recommended mark for the
question. The teacher then had to go through the student work and either accept or reject
the recommended grade. Was this process useful for the teacher?
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Comment on your response. Outline any significant issues you had with the marking
process: Click here to enter your comment.
Question 7
How did you find the whole eMCAT experience for you as teacher? Please make any
comments positive or negative: Click here to enter your comment.
Question 8
In what ways could the eMCAT be adapted so that it would be easier to use? Click here
to enter your comment.
Question 9
Would the eMCAT be able to replace the actual MCAT? What changes would be
required for it to be used as the actual assessment? Click here to enter your comment.
Question 10
The eMCAT is NZQA’s first step in organising a computer based assessment. Do you
think that this type of computer based assessment would be able to be used in other
subjects?
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Comment on your response. Please list any subjects that you feel would be unsuited to
such an assessment tool. Click here to enter your comment.
Question 11
If you had a choice between answering your NCEA examinations on computer or by
pen/paper, which would you prefer?
Pen & paper
Computer
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Comment on your response. Please outline any significant issues your students had:
Click here to enter your comment.
Question 12
Please provide any final comments that you think NZQA and Education Perfect would find
useful: Click here to enter your comment.
Thank you for your time to complete this questionnaire and, more importantly, for taking part in the pilot. Please
send the completed questionnaire to [email protected] 30 September.