Queensland Comparable Assessment Tasks (QCATs)
QCATs are authentic performance-based assessment tasks. They are administered each year to students in Years 4, 6 and 9. Their purpose is to provide information about student learning in targeted Essential Learnings in English, Mathematics and Science and to help promote consistency of teacher judgments across the state.
Schools have the choice of implementing the QSA developed QCATs (centrally-devised) or developing their own (school-devised QCATs).
2010 QCATs
Design briefs
Centrally-devised
School-devised
QCATs packages
Teacher guidelines, student booklets and guides to making judgments are distributed to schools before the implementation period. These documents, along with sample responses, are also available from the Assessment Bank website from the first day of the QCATs administration.
Suggested 2010 reporting comments
This document provides suggestions for the report to parents (in preparation).
Report to teachers
The QSA's summary of data will be available following administration of the QCATs.
2009 QCATs
Design briefs
Centrally-devised
School-devised
- Year 9 design brief (PDF, 477 kB)
This document includes the design brief for Year 9 English, Mathematics and Science school-devised QCATs.
QCATs packages
Teacher guidelines, student booklets, guides to making judgments and sample responses are available from the from the Assessment Bank website.
Suggested 2009 reporting comments
This document provides suggestions for the report to parents.
- QCATs 2009 Suggested reporting comments (PDF, 158 kB)
This document provides suggestions for the report to parents.
Report to teachers
- QCATs 2009 Years 4 & 6: Report to teachers (PDF, 260 kB)
This report summarises data from the administration of the Years 4 & 6 QCATs.
More information
- Using Queensland Comparable Assessment Tasks (QCATs) to support learning. ( See PowerPoint presentation 8 on the PD Packages page).
Last updated: 4 March 2010
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