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QCAR Queensland Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Framework

QCAR Queensland Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Framework. An overview. August 2008. QCAR components Key messages QCAR in a national context. Where does it come from?.

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QCAR Queensland Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Framework

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  1. QCARQueensland Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Framework An overview

  2. August 2008 QCAR components Key messages QCAR in a national context

  3. Where does it come from? It is a QSA project being run by a designated project team. They are generating, trialling, evaluating and implementing the objectives and deliverables of the framework. • DETA Minister • QSA • QCAR team • Partner, Trial and Project Schools • All Sectors (EQ, ISQ, QCEC)

  4. What is it?

  5. Learning and Assessment Focus Describes the focus of learning and assessment within the year-level juncture. Ways of working Describes 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.

  6. Assessable elements: • the focus of assessment • identify the valued features of the KLA

  7. Essential Learnings and Standards Assessable elements

  8. Assessable elements and standards

  9. Understanding the Standards Ways of working Knowledge and understanding

  10. Key messages for schools • Alignmentis ensuring assessment purpose is clear and related to the learning experiences and consistent approaches are used to plan, teach, assess and reflect. • Good feedbackimproves learning. • Moderation - Standards/Evidence/Agreement, developing consistent approaches to standards • CIAU - Credibility, Intellectual Depth, Authenticity, User friendliness, developing comparability in our expectations and rigor in our assessment

  11. A Planning model from QCAR Select the Essential Learnings, school priorities and context for learning. Plan learning experiences and teaching strategies to respond to the needs and interests of the learner. Plan a variety of assessments to collect comprehensive and meaningful evidence of learning. Consider how judgments will be made about the quality of learning using the evidence in student responses. Consider how and when to provide feedback. Identify curriculum Sequence learning Develop assessment Make judgments Use feedback

  12. Regions for Common Assessment Trial 08

  13. What else is going on? State • QLD 1-10 Syllabus redevelopment (timeline now unclear) • Senior Phase of Learning Project (waiting for more national direction) • Quality Syllabus research (March 2008) • Year 10 guidelines National Core curricula standards (from ALP post election briefing to States) • Establish a National Curriculum Board to develop a rigorous, consistent and quality curriculum for all Australian students including State, Catholic and Independent sectors supported by Curriculum Corporation - $5m. • Standards to be simple, clear and written in plain English for P-12 with ‘obvious and sensible’ local and regional variations. Commence with 4 core subjects: Maths, English, the Sciences, History. To be implemented by 2010 in cooperation with States and Territories including negotiating funding impact with States. ACER to have a support role in development.

  14. Challenges • Multiple-age classrooms and the QCATS – time, intrusion to curriculum, moderation opportunities • QCAR transition processes – Who would be responsible for auditing the existing programs and mapping curriculum to ensure the Essentials are being covered? What tools can you use to support professional development of your team? • How are you informing your families and local community about curriculum changes and particularly standards? • ICT expectations – a cross-curricular priority • Indigenous perspectives are now embedded in curriculum

  15. QCAR in a national curriculum context • High Quality, High Equity, Low Definition (Luke, Weir and Woods http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/downloads/syllabus/syll_principles_dev_report.pdf • Generic standards (student achievement and content ) • Informed Prescription (what is essential) • Informed Professionalism (teacher development, quality assessment practices, contextualised programming)

  16. Contacts – where to from here? Assessment Bank https://qcar.qsa.qld.edu.au/assessmentbank/ Go to Queensland Studies Authority website for more information (QCAR, Indigenous perspectives, Syllabus) http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/ Subscribe to QSA Connect (an electronic newsletter) for the latest updates from the Queensland Studies Authority http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/publications/2408.html Contact Josephine Wise for more PD opportunities jwise@asiq.qld.edu.au For a draft Maths scope and sequence EDeVries@aisq.qld.edu.au

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