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Link-up 2006 Session 2

Link-up 2006 Session 2. What QCAR assesses. The role of QCAR. Specify what learning is essential Determine standards for learning Support assessment in schools Improve consistency of teacher judgment Establish a reporting framework. QCAR Framework.

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Link-up 2006 Session 2

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  1. Link-up 2006Session 2

  2. What QCAR assesses

  3. The role of QCAR • Specify what learning is essential • Determine standards for learning • Support assessment in schools • Improve consistency of teacher judgment • Establish a reporting framework

  4. QCAR Framework Provides products that schools can use in: • aligning what is taught, assessed and reported • building assessment capability • supporting student learning

  5. Alignment Alignment refers to how well the elements of curriculum assessment and reporting work together to promote improved student learning

  6. Alignment • In QCAR, four organisers bring the key elements together: • All KLAs • All junctures • Everyday assessment • Statewide assessment

  7. We assess what we value • Solving problems • Thinking critically • Applying new skills and techniques • Having the personal skills needed to communicate and live alongside others • Being able to imagine and assess alternative futures (Brown and Lander, 2004)

  8. Queensland Essential Learnings identify knowledge, skills, attributes and capabilities in three broad categories: • Creative and successful knowledge workers • Fully participating citizens in social and political life • Identity and self-management as individuals. They specify what is important for all students to know and do by the end of Years 3, 5, 7 and 9.

  9. 4 Organisers • Knowing and Understanding • Inquiring • Responding • Reflecting

  10. Captures the disciplinary knowledges within the key learning areas • Describes ways of working through: • inquiring • responding • reflecting Statement that: • describes the focus for learning • describes what students are expected to know and be able to do at specified junctures

  11. Alignment Four organisers of the Essential Learnings and Standards are directly aligned with four criteria for the Statewide Assessment Standards are the unifying device for the Essential Learnings and Assessment

  12. Standards Standards help teachers to: • inform students about the desirable features of a performance • match evidence in student work to standards descriptors.

  13. QCAR Assessment Assessment that: • focuses on supporting learning rather than sorting and selecting • reflects models of learning • is aligned with curriculum intent • is authentic and engaging for students • Is rigorous and challenging • is inclusive and fair • is valid and reliable

  14. We assess what we value.

  15. Knowing and Understanding: The disciplinary knowledge within the key learning areas Facts Procedures Concepts Metacognition Ways of Working: Inquiring Responding Reflecting QCAR Assessment

  16. QCAR Assessment • Authentic • Performance based • Connected with the real world • Requiring significant student time

  17. Assessment • Knowing and understanding • Inquiring • Responding • Reflecting • Essential Learnings • Knowing and understanding • Inquiring • Responding • Reflecting • Essentials Learnings • Knowing and understanding • Inquiring • Responding • Reflecting • Assessment • Knowing and understanding • Inquiring • Responding • Reflecting Pedagogy

  18. QCAR contacts • Website: www.qsa.qld.edu.au/qcar • Email: QCARadmin@qsa.qld.edu.au

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