Introducing the QCAR Framework - Information for parents/carers: Presentation

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Queensland Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting
Framework
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Workshop 12
The QCAR Framework
an introduction for parents/carers
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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

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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 19. It supports

• Consistency
• Comparability
• Continuity
• Diversity

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

• Working with knowledge
• Developing identity and managing self
• Acting in the social and political world

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Standards

• Describe qualities evident in student work
• Provide a common language to describe the quality
  of achievement
• Describe the features of performance for the AE
  grades

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Knowledge and understanding
Ways of working
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The Assessment Bank
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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.

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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.

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More information on the QCAR Framework
Website www.qsa.qld.edu.au Email
office_at_qsa.qld.edu.au