P-10 Digital Technologies assessment resources

Assessment is the ongoing process of gathering, analysing and reflecting on evidence to make informed judgments about the achievement or capabilities of individuals and cohorts. It plays an integral role in improving student learning and informing teaching.

Techniques and conditions

Techniques and conditions provide advice that supports teachers to develop a range and balance within an assessment program. A range and balance of assessment gives students the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and skills across a year or band of years.

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Making judgments

Judgments about evidence of student learning are made against the Australian Curriculum achievement standard, which represents the C standard (or equivalent).

Teachers make judgments about the evidence in student work using task-specific standards that contribute to a planned assessment folio containing evidence of student learning. Teachers can use the standards elaborations to create task-specific standards for making judgments about student work.

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Standards elaborations

The QCAA has developed standards elaborations from the Australian Curriculum achievement standards. The standards elaborations provide teachers with a tool for making consistent, comparable and defensible judgments about how well, on a five-point scale, students have demonstrated what they know, understand and can do.

The standards elaborations can be used to:

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Quality assurance

Quality assurance processes enable schools and teachers to develop a shared understanding of the expected quality of learning performance.

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Moderation

Moderation of assessment is a process whereby teachers engage in focused professional conversations to share their observations and judgments. They do so to improve the consistency of their decisions, and to ensure their judgments are as valid, reliable and fair as possible.

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Reporting

Schools are required to provide parents/carers with a report on each student twice a year. In most schools, this takes place at the end of each semester.

Reports should be:

Schooling sectors and/or employing authorities provide advice for schools about reporting requirements.

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Last updated 8 August 2019

Australian Curriculum Version 8.4 in Queensland