Assessment Health Check: Strengthen Your Assessment Design and Moderation Practice

With NZQA programme monitoring across Levels 1 to 7 and TEO self-review underway, now is the time to check your assessment.

This Assessment ‘Health Check’ is a focused, expert review of your assessment design, alignment, and marking approach through a quality assurance and moderation lens.

You’ll gain clarity on:

  • How well your assessment aligns to learning outcomes and programme expectations

  • Where risks or gaps may exist (before they become moderation issues)

  • What needs to be strengthened to support consistent, defensible assessor decisions.

Why this matters now

NZQA monitoring place a clear focus on how well your assessment demonstrates:

  • Alignment to Graduate Profile Outcomes and Learning Outcomes

  • Appropriate NZQCF level and complexity

  • Clear and consistent assessor judgement

  • Sufficient and valid evidence of achievement

What’s included

  • Review of programme and course documentation

  • Diagnostic check of one assessment tool and marking criteria

  • Identification of moderation risks and alignment gaps

  • Clear, prioritised recommendations

    (Each booking covers one assessment tool. If you would like more than one assessment reviewed, please contact us.)

Who this is for

  • Programme leaders, academic managers, and assessors

  • Private Training Establishments preparing for NZQA monitoring or TEO self-review

  • Teams needing an expert review of their assessment before moderation

How it works

Option 1: Secure your booking
Book your Assessment Health Check using the payment link.

  1. Secure your Booking your Assessment Health Check

  2. Submit your assessment materials via email

  3. Receive your expert review and recommendations within 5 working days.

Option 2: Request first
Send an enquiry to confirm scope or timing before booking

Then:

  • Submit your programme, course documents, and assessment via email

  • Receive your structured diagnostic review and recommendations within 5 working days

Important information

  • Please email ONE assessment for review to hello@affinitypluscollege.co.nz

    To support a thorough and efficient review, include:

    • Assessment task

    • Marking guide or rubric

    • (Optional) one sample of marked student work

    Subject line:
    Assessment Health Check – [Your Name / Organisation]

    Once received, I’ll begin the review ahead of your scheduled session.

  • This is a focused, expert-led review of your assessment from a quality assurance and moderation perspective.

    You can expect:

    • A structured review of your assessment design, alignment, and marking approach

    • Identification of gaps between learning outcomes, tasks, and marking criteria

    • Feedback on clarity and sufficiency of evidence requirements

    • Insight into areas that may lead to inconsistent or hard-to-defend assessor decisions

    • Clear, practical recommendations you can act on immediately.

  • To keep this review focused, the following are not included:

    • Full assessment redesign or rewriting

    • Development of new assessment materials or marking rubrics

    • Ongoing consultancy or multiple review cycles

    • Formal moderation sign-off or compliance advisory support

    • Detailed policy or QMS development

    If more in-depth support is required, this can be discussed as a separate engagement.