What is the Queensland Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Framework?
This framework presents the strategies to determine essential learnings and set new standards for assessing and reporting student achievement in the early and middle years of schooling in Queensland. It aims to improve student learning and increase comparability of assessment and reporting across all Queensland schools from the Prep to Year 10 by: • making clear statements about the essential learnings that are to be taught in Qd schools • providing a common frame of reference and a shared language for communicating student achievement • equipping teachers with high-quality assessment tools for collecting evidence of student achievement • promoting teachers’ professional learning, focused on good assessment practices and judging the quality of student achievement against statewide standards • introducing statewide assessment of student learning in Years 4, 6 and 9 (Qld Comparable Assessment Tasks) • providing more meaningful reports of student achievement. QCARF supports our delivery o
