国家教育成就证书（NCEA）-（12年级）

新西兰对学校学习者的资格是国家教育成就证书-NCEA。NCEA是新西兰国家质量认证框架（NQF）的认证。它与整个高等教育和行业培训中使用的800多个其他国家资格同时存在。NCEA是基于成就的。在每个学习领域都制定了国家标准。当学生达到这些标准时，他们将获得其NCEA资格的学分。NQF包含两种类型的国家标准：绩效标准和单位标准。所有成就标准和单元标准的学分均计入NCEA。成就标准允许学生以标准显示自己的成就质量-学生可以达到标准，或者以优异或卓越的方式达到目标。对于单元标准，学生可以通过满足标准来达到标准，
New Zealand's qualification for school learners is the National Certificate of Educational Achievement - NCEA. NCEA is a qualification on New Zealand's National Qualifications Framework (NQF). It sits alongside more than 800 other national qualifications used throughout tertiary education and industry training.<br>NCEA is achievement based. National standards have been set in each area of learning. When students achieve these standards they earn credits towards their NCEA qualification.<br>The NQF contains two types of national standards: achievement standards and unit standards. Credits from all achievement standard and unit standards count towards NCEA. <br>Achievement standards allow students to show the quality of their achievement in a standard - students can just achieve the standard, or achieve it with merit or with excellence. <br>For unit standards students can either achieve the standard by meeting the criteria or not achieve the standard. There are no merit or excellence grades. <br>Some achievement standards are assessed in school during the year (internally), other achievement standards are assessed externally (usually in end-of-year exams). <br>All unit standards are internally assessed