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Workshop 9. Using QCATs to support learning. Workshop aims. To introduce the QCATs To show how QCATs support learning and build consistency of teacher judgments. The five components of the QCAR Framework. What are QCATs?. Authentic, performance-based assessments that:. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Using QCATs to support learning

Workshop 9

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Workshop aims

• To introduce the QCATs

• To show how QCATs support

learning and build consistency of

teacher judgments

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The five components of the QCAR Framework

Essential Learnings clarify what to teach

Standards provide a common language to describe student achievement

Assessment Bank provides online access to a collection of quality assessments and resources

Queensland Comparable Assessment Tasks (QCATs) in Years 4, 6 and 9

provide evidence of what students know, understand and can do, and support consistency of teacher judgment

Guidelines for Reporting support consistency of reporting

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What are QCATs?

• involve solving meaningful problems• emphasise critical thinking and reasoning• provide students with the opportunity to do

their best work• target a selection of Essential Learnings and

incorporate the Standards

Authentic, performance-based assessments that:

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QCATs support learning by:

• building consistency of teacher judgments• modelling quality assessment • providing information to teachers, students

and parents about:– what students know and can do – what is working well– what needs attention.

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Note for Amanda and Robyn, I switched Slides 6 and 7 around, so that "What are QCATs" comes before "QCATs support learning". This means that the first para on the notes page for QCATs support learning is no longer necessary
Jacqueline Belisle
A and R: I have added the word parents here. Is that OK?
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QCAT design

QCATs focus on a targeted selection of Essential Learnings in English, Mathematics and Science in Years 4, 6 and 9.

QCATs may be:• centrally devised• school-devised.

QCATs provide comprehensive information that support schools in their planning.

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Achieving consistency in teacher judgments

Standards

Evidence

Agreement

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QCATs support consistency of teacher judgments

Assessment: Design brief

Standards: Guide to making judgments

Evidence: Sample student responses

Agreement: A shared understanding about the application of the Standards to the evidence

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Teachers are involved in decisions about:

•preparation

•implementation

•making judgments

•moderation

•evaluation

•feedback

How teachers work with QCATs

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Available from the QSA website only

Jacqueline Belisle
Rachel: This notice applies to the sample response. Could you please make it a little more prominent/noticeable?
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Using QCATs as a strategy to support learning

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Implementing QCATs

• Preparation

• Special provision

• Student attendance

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Implementing QCATs in your school

Using QCATs to support learning and

consistency of teacher judgments

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QCATs reporting

Year Level and KLA Year 4 English

The Year 4 English QCAT assessed what students know, understand and can do from a selection of Essential Learnings by the end of Year 3.

Brief description of the requirements within the assessment

Students were required to work with the problem of locating a lost puppy. They had to listen to an assembly message and then respond to questions about key facts. They interpreted the meaning of a noticeboard message and appreciated the effectiveness of the words and pictures used. Students wrote a thank-you note to the finder of the puppy.

Brief description of how judgments were made

Teachers judged and graded the quality of student responses using a common marking guide supported by sample responses.

Overall grade Teacher inserts the appropriate descriptor for A –E.

A report to parents/carers provides an overall grade on each of the QCATs, using the five-point standards scale (A–E). The overall grade is assigned to the student work by the class teacher.

Sample report

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Reporting sampleYear Level and KLA Year 6 English

The Year 6 English QCAT assessed what students know, understand and can do from a selection of Essential Learnings by the end of Year 5.

Brief description of the requirements within the assessment

Students were required to engage the interest of billeted visiting students by writing a description of their favourite local place. They used their knowledge of their local area to prepare an itinerary of places for a billeted student to visit.

Brief description of how judgments were made

Teachers judged and graded the quality of student responses using a common marking guide supported by sample responses.

Overall grade Teacher inserts the appropriate descriptor A–E.

Year Level and KLA Year 9 English

The Year 9 English QCAT assessed what students know, understand and can do from a selection of Essential Learnings by the end of Year 9.

Brief description of the requirements within the assessment

Students were required to design an advertisement that might persuade their school community to care for the local environment. They did this by analysing an advertisement with an environmental message and then drafting an advertisement appropriate to their school community. They provided an explanation of the persuasive techniques they used.

Brief description of how judgments were made

Teachers judged and graded the quality of student responses using a common marking guide supported by sample responses.

Overall grade Teacher inserts the appropriate descriptor A–E

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More information on the QCAR Framework

Website: www.qsa.qld.edu.au

Email: [email protected]