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Pedagogical Practices

Pedagogical Practices: Providing multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their essential learnings in a range of contexts and media

The QCAR Framework strives for an alignment of curriculum, assessment and reporting.

Alignment refers to how well these elements work together to promote improved student learning.

The QCAR Framework identifies and employs four constructs as vital for the alignment of curriculum, assessment and reporting. These constructs constitute the framework: they are used in the Essential Learnings to organise the dimensions and to specify assessable elements.

The same constructs are in turn used in the construction of assessments, and in the standards for making judgments. The standards are then used for reporting student achievement.

The four constructs which "sit behind" the QCAR Framework are:

knowing (and understanding)
inquiring
responding
reflecting.

Essential Learnings and Standards: Position paper QSA, 2007

Assessment is an ongoing process of gathering evidence to determine what each student knows, understands, and can do.

Quality teaching and learning programs demand rigorous assessment processes that ensure that teachers assess the learning required of the students (as indicated in the intended curriculum) and that students have had multiple opportunities to achieve and consolidate that learning.

To provide for the particular needs and contexts of all students, learning and assessment opportunities must ensure multiple opportunities to learn and multiple opportunities to demonstrate student learning.

P-12 Curriculum Framework, Education Queensland 2008
(To be published in April 2008)

Essential Learnings and Standards: Position paper (new window)

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