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. 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. The NQF contains two types of national standards: achievement standards and unit standards. Credits from all achievement standard and unit standards count towards NCEA. 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.