Question 1

What is NCEA AS 92017 about?

Accepted Answer

This internal standard (meaning your school assesses it, not an external exam) is worth 5 credits. You take part in group movement activities — like team sports, dance, or other physical activities with three or more people — and you show that you understand the strategies (plans of action) your group uses. A key requirement is that you must also talk about kotahitanga, a Māori concept meaning unity, togetherness, and collective action, and how it connects to what your group does.

Question 2

What do students need to do for AS 92017?

Accepted Answer

1. Take part in group movement activities (any physical activity with 3 or more people, such as a team sport, dance, or fitness challenge). 2. Identify and describe the strategies (plans of action) your group used and why you used them. 3. Use specific examples from your own experience in the activity to support what you say. 4. Discuss kotahitanga — how unity and working together as one played a role in your group's strategies. 5. Strategies can involve ideas like tuākana-tēina (older/more skilled helping newer/less skilled), co-operation (working together), and vā (the relationships and space between people).

Question 3

What's the difference between Achieved, Merit, and Excellence for AS 92017?

Accepted Answer

Achieved: Describe what strategies your group used and give a reason why. Use examples from your activity. You also need to mention kotahitanga somewhere in your work. Merit: Go further by explaining how and why the strategies were used — not just what they were. Your examples need to clearly show your thinking about the connection between the strategy and the outcome. Your discussion of kotahitanga needs to be linked to how the strategies were applied. Excellence: Make a judgement about how effective the strategies were. Did they work well? Why or why not? What does that tell you? Your conclusions need to be backed up by solid examples, and your discussion of kotahitanga should be woven into your overall evaluation, not just mentioned briefly.

Question 4

What mistakes do students typically make in AS 92017?

Accepted Answer

1. Only describing what happened in the activity rather than explaining the strategies being used and why they were chosen. 2. Mentioning kotahitanga as a one-liner or definition without connecting it meaningfully to the actual strategies used in the activity. 3. Using vague or general examples instead of specific moments from the group activity to support points. 4. At Excellence level, making statements about effectiveness without actually drawing a conclusion or justifying why a strategy did or did not work. 5. Confusing strategies (plans of action) with skills (individual techniques) — the focus needs to be on the group's plan, not just what individual players did.

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