About Visual Arts
Visual Arts students explore, refine, and communicate their own artistic ideas by responding to how art expresses identity, culture, ethnicity, ideas, feelings, moods, beliefs, political viewpoints, and personal perspectives.
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- internal and external assessment
- teachers delivering this subject
- learners taking this subject.
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Visual Arts achievement standards
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Visual Arts achievement standards
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Visual Arts achievement standards
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Exemplars, reports, past exams and assessment schedules
Assessment specifications
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Level 1
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Level 2
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Level 3
Useful exam information
Submission dates for portfolios (external link)
Submitted subjects submission instructions will be available to schools in Term 2.
Internal assessment resources
National moderator's report
Annual reports on issues and trends in assessment
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Teachers can request clarification of a standard with this form
Request clarificationRemote assessment matrix
Guidance for teachers if learning and assessment needs to be completed remotely
Remote assessment matrix [PDF, 236KB]Alternative evidence gathering templates
Templates for student results when direct assessment is not possible
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- NCEA Education
- TKI
- TKI
Tools
Use the Visual Arts matrix on NCEA.education
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Visual Arts resources on Pūtake (opens in a new window)
Online learning modules available for this subject
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