QCE and QSA presentations for school communities

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QCE and QSA presentations forschool communities

• Part 3 The QCE and the Senior Statement

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Our focus for the presentation

• Overview of the QCE
• The credit rules for awarding a QCE
• The QCE and the Senior Statement

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Available resources

• QSA website
• Planning your pathway to the QCE
• Career Information Service website

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QSA website
Certificates tab
QCE button
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Overview
Recognised studies
Learning accounts
Learning options
Guides and resources
Transfer students
Click on Planning a QCE to find Planning your
Pathway to the QCE.
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Planning your pathways to a QCE
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Planning Your Pathway to the QCE

• A guide for learners, commonly called The
  Pathways document.

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What is a Queensland Certificate of Education?

• A QCE will be awarded to young people only if
  their course of study satisfies some specific
  requirements
• a significant amount of learning
• a set standard of achievement
• a set pattern
• literacy and numeracy requirements.

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Why aim for a QCE?
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2008 statistics

• 42 020 students completed Year 12
• 25 707 students were OP eligible
• 16 313 students were OP ineligible

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What gives the QCE value?
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Types of learning

• Core
• Preparatory
• Enrichment
• Advanced

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Credit rules for awarding a QCE

• The amount of study in each category and the
  standard to be met is laid down in legislation.

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Core courses of study

• To qualify for a QCE, a minimum of 12 credits
  must come from completed Core courses of study.
• At least 1 credit must come from Core studies
  completed while enrolled at school.

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Core courses of study
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Core courses of study (cont.)
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Relaxation of the completed Core requirement

• Changes of subjects within Mathematics and
  English may still be regarded as completed Core
  when the student changes upon realising that they
  have chosen a subject in which they are not
  achieving as well as hoped.

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Applicable subject changes

• Mathematics B to Mathematics A
• Mathematics A to Prevocational Mathematics
• Mathematics B to Prevocational Mathematics
• English to English Communication

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Relaxation conditions

• The learner must still have 20 credits.
• Subjects must be changed after first or second
  semester.
• A minimum provisional result of a Limited Level
  of Achievement must be attained for the original
  subject.
• A minimum exit result of a Sound Level of
  Achievement must be attained for the final
  subject at the end of Year 12

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Preparatory courses of study
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Enrichment courses of study
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Advanced courses of study
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Recognised studies

• Owners of courses of study (or their authorised
  agents) may apply for their courses to be
  recognised by the QSA.
• Courses submitted for recognition must meet QSA
  criteria and standards.

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List of QCE recognised studies

• Recognised awards and certificates (some
  examples)
• Australian Music Examinations Board
• Australian Speech Communication Association
• Queensland Rugby Union
• Royal Academy of Dance
• St Cecilia School of Music
• Swimming Queensland Association
• The Duke of Edinburgh's Award in Australia
  (Queensland Division)
• Trinity College London

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List of QCE recognised studies

• Recognised international learning programs
• International Baccalaureate Organisation
• Recognised school-based subjects (non-QSA)
• Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Aviation
  Australia Pty Ltd
• Metacognition Somerset College
• Senior Astronomy and Astrophysics Charleville
  State High School
• Recognised structured community learning
• Advanced Modern Chinese Asia Language Centre of
  Queensland
• Drive 4 Life Catholic Education Diocese of
  Townsville
• Recognised structured workplace learning
• Construction Skills Queensland

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Set standards for courses of study
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Credit for partial completion of Core courses

• Authority subjects and Authority-registered
  subjects based on semesters studied before
  exiting with a Sound Level of Achievement or
  higher standard.
• VET Certificate qualifications based on 25, 50
  or 75 of the competencies attained.
• Components of recognised international learning
  programs may contribute towards the award of a
  QCE.

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Credit for partial completion of Preparatory
courses
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Credit for partial completion of Enrichment
courses
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Credit for partial completion of Advanced courses
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Semesters conceded to the award of a QCE

• Up to 2 semesters of incomplete Authority and
  Authority-registered subjects at Limited Level of
  Achievement can be conceded towards the award of
  a QCE, if needed, providing the student has
  exited the subject(s) after the first or second
  semester of each course.

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Semesters conceded to the award of a QCE

• A Mathematics or English subject that has been
  exited and used as part of completed Core
  according to the new relaxation arrangements
  cannot also be used for conceded semesters.

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Meeting literacy requirements
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Meeting numeracy requirements
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Meeting literacy and numeracy requirements (cont.)
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Career Information Service lthttps//cis.qsa.qld.ed
u.augt

• The QCE planner on the CIS website can help
  students monitor their progress towards a QCE.

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Eligibility for a QCE.
The total number of credits
Literacy and numeracy requirements and the
subject used to meet these.
School subjects are assumed to be a Sound
result. Yellow shading indicates an assumed and
not actual result.
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Possible scenarios
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A possible course of study
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A possible course of study (cont.)
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Undertaking a school-based apprenticeship
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Undertaking a school-based apprenticeship (cont.)
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A student specialises
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A student specialises (cont.)
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A student re-assesses
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A student re-assesses (cont.)
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The drifting student
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The drifting student (cont.)
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The drifting student To get a QCE
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The drifting student To get a QCE (cont.)
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Flexibility

• Credits can accumulate for up to 9 years after
  registering for a learning account (generally the
  beginning of Year 10).
• (QCE Handbook)

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Flexibility (cont.)

• Students are not required to meet all QCE
  requirement by the end of Year 12.
• Not being eligible for a QCE does not mean that a
  student has failed senior.

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One option

• A student works towards completing an
  apprenticeship.
• They start with a school-based apprenticeship and
  some school subjects.

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The course of study at school

• English Communication
• Mathematics A
• School-based apprenticeship

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The course of study at school
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After finishing Year 12

• The student continues with their apprenticeship.
• They complete the Certificate III.
• Another 6 credits are banked into their learning
  account.

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The outcome

• A total of 20 credits accrue in the learning
  account.
• The student will be awarded a QCE.

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The Senior Education Profile

• On completion of Year 12 students receive a
  Senior Education Profile.
• All students receive a Senior Statement,
  and eligible students receive a QCE and a
  Tertiary Entrance Statement.
• Students who continue to study towards a QCE
  after completing Year 12 will receive a Statement
  of Results when they become eligible to receive a
  QCE.

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Senior Statement

• A statement issued to a student who is enrolled
  at school on the last day of Year 12.

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Statement of Results

• Issued to a student at any time other than the
  end of Year 12, such as when the student
• completes the requirements of the QCE
• sits for a Senior External Examination
• The Statement of Results is cumulative and shows
  all contributing studies to date.

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Find out more
Queensland Studies Authority www.qsa.qld.edu.au