Queensland Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Framework

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Queensland Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting
Framework
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Workshop 4
Understanding the Standards
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Workshop aims

• To develop an understanding of the Standards and
  their role within the QCAR Framework

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The five components of the QCAR Framework
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Knowledge and understanding
Ways of working
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• Assessable elements
• the focus of assessment
• the valued features of the KLA

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Assessable elements

• SCIENCE
• Knowledge and understanding
• Investigating
• Communicating
• Reflecting

• SOSE
• Knowledge and understanding
• Investigating
• Communicating
• Participating
• Reflecting

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Assessable elements and descriptors
Assessable elements identify the valued features
of the KLA about which evidence of student
learning is collected and assessed
Descriptors identify the qualities associated
with each assessable element, for each A E
grade
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Assessable elements and descriptors

• support teachers to make judgments about the
  quality of student achievement
• help develop consistency of teacher judgments

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Developing task-specific descriptors
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Descriptors of quality
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Consider this example Year 7 Food webs task

• Which Science assessable elements would relate to
  this task?
• How could more specific information be added to
  the assessable elements to more closely reflect
  the task?

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More information on the QCAR Framework
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