Queensland Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting (QCAR) Framework
The QCAR Framework aligns curriculum, assessment and reporting. It supports teachers and teaching practices that are tailored to meet the unique needs of students from Years 1 to 9.
The Framework gives teachers valuable resources to support their everyday work. Rather than seeking "sameness", it presents a way of achieving more commonality in what is taught while supporting diversity in how it is taught. It also gives teachers direction and resources to help improve student learning.
The QCAR Framework has 5 components that are designed to work together:
Essential Learnings
Essential Learnings identify what should be taught and what is important for students to have opportunities to know, understand and be able to do.
Standards
Standards for the Essential Learnings provide a common frame of reference and a shared language to describe student achievement.
Assessment Bank
An online Assessment Bank supports the everyday assessment practices of teachers through access to a range of quality assessment tools.
Queensland Comparable Assessment Tasks (QCATs)
The QCATs provide information on what students know, understand and can do, in a selection of Essential Learnings. QCATs are intended to promote consistency of teacher judgments across the state.
Guidelines for Reporting
The Guidelines for Reporting support consistency of reporting across the state.
More information
Resources have been developed to clearly explain each of the 5 components and to support the implementation of the QCAR Framework. These include information statements, scope and sequence guides, and professional development packages.
Last reviewed: 14 January 2008
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