Do you recommend that all parishes and schools in a diocese start NCEA ACRE in the same year? Should one-half or one-third begin in the initial year?
Ideally, all sites should start within the same year, at about the same time. This is the only way to get a comprehensive diocesan picture. However, I am aware that budget limitations can get in the way of the ideal. Don’t allow the ideal to be the enemy of the good, however. If you need to limit the student audience for assessment, even though that is NOT what you really want to do, then at least select those to be assessed in a true random fashion so you don’t intentionally skew the results. It would be very inappropriate to select only those sites or students that are likely to produce “high scores”. That defeats the purpose of using NCEA ACRE.
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