Queensland Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Framework

Queensland Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Framework

The QCAR Frameworkan introduction for parents/carers

Workshop 12

Workshop aims

• To provide overview of the QCAR Framework and its components

• To describe the benefits of the Framework

• To explain its implementation in schools

• Consistency

• Comparability

• Continuity

• Diversity

The QCAR Framework

A comprehensive framework that aligns what is taught, how it is taught, how learning is assessed and how learning is reported for all students in Years 1–9. It supports:

The five components of the QCAR Framework

Essential Learnings clarify what to teach

Standards provide a common language to describe student achievement

Assessment Bank provides online access to a collection of quality assessments and resources

Queensland Comparable Assessment Tasks (QCATs) in Years 4, 6 and 9

provide evidence of what students know, understand and can do, and support consistency of teacher judgment

Guidelines for Reporting support consistency of reporting

The knowledge and capabilities that students need to develop now, and draw on in the future, as active responsible citizens and lifelong learners.

Essential Learnings

Learning and assessment focusDescribes the focus of learning and assessment within the year-level juncture.

Ways of workingDescribes the essential processes that students use to develop and demonstrate their knowledge and understanding.

Knowledge and understanding Describes essential concepts, facts and procedures of the KLA.

• Working with knowledge

• Developing identity and managing self

• Acting in the social and political world

Essential Learnings capabilities

• Describe qualities evident in student work• Provide a common language to describe the

quality of achievement• Describe the features of performance for the A–E

grades

Standards

Knowledge and understanding

Ways of working

The Assessment Bank

The Queensland Comparable Assessment Tasks (QCATs) —

Years 4, 6 and 9 • Support consistency of teacher judgments• Model quality assessment • Provide information to teachers and students

about:– what students know and can do – what is working well– what needs attention.

Guidelines for Reporting

Provide support for:

• twice-yearly reports

• reports of individual student achievement on QCATs

• a report for teachers on the implementation of QCATs.

More information on the QCAR Framework

Website: www.qsa.qld.edu.au

Email: [email protected]