New Zealand Scholarship Technology study guide
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New Zealand Scholarship Technology (Te Hiranga Hangarau) is an award recognising top secondary school students in Technology, administered by NZQA. It sits alongside NCEA but is separate from it: you do not have to be working towards NCEA to enter, and entry is arranged through your school, since not all schools enter students and some enter only a few subjects. Assessment is by a written or spoken examination or by submission of a portfolio or report of work produced throughout the year, and it is designed to be challenging for the most able students. To be awarded Scholarship, students are expected to show deep understanding of the subject, high-level critical thinking, and the ability to apply their understanding to complex situations. Assessments have between 3 and 5 parts, each marked 0 to 8, and the parts are added to give a final score compared against a cut score; scripts close to a cut score are re-marked. Results are released in mid-February each year, with assessed work available soon after through your learner login. Topics on this exam: Technology. The New Zealand Scholarship Technology study guide has 1 section and about 392 words.
01Technology
Scholarship Technology examines how well you can think like a technologist in unfamiliar contexts. It is not a recall paper. You are expected to analyse technological practice, technological knowledge and the nature of technology, then justify judgements about outcomes, decisions and consequences. The New Zealand Technology curriculum's three strands give you the analytical framework.
392 words, about 2 minMore study resources for New Zealand Scholarship Technology
- Practice questionsIn technological design, what is the primary purpose of an iterative prototyping process?
- FlashcardsFitness for purpose. The degree to which an outcome meets the stated brief and its measurable specifications while satisfying the needs of identified stakeholders in its intended context of use.
- Cheat sheetTechnology scholarship rewards analysis of the interdependence between the made world, human needs and the natural environment, not description of a single product.
- Key termsTechnological outcome. The tangible result a technologist intends to produce for a user or community, such as a product, system or environment.
- Study planMap the full Technology scholarship standard into a one-page concept grid covering technological practice, technological knowledge, and the nature of technology, then annotate where each strand is assessed in the written and portfolio components.
- Common mistakesCandidates transfer the internal-achievement habit of evidencing process stages and assume narrative completeness earns scholarship marks; the assessment instead rewards sustained critical argument about a technological issue, so a well-sequenced diary reads as descriptive.
- Exam-day guideNZ Scholarship is administered by NZQA through schools; your school's examinations officer issues your admission slip and confirms ID requirements.