RE Standards Elaborations Primary

The standards elaborations (SEs) are a resource developed to assist teachers to use the Australian Curriculum achievement standards to make consistent, comparable and defensible A to E judgments about the evidence of achievement in a folio of student work.

In Queensland, the Australian Curriculum achievement standard represents the C standard — a sound level of knowledge and understanding of the content, and application of skills. The standards elaborations have been refined to reflect this.

The Rockhampton RE Curriculum has developed the RE Standards Elaborations based on the HASS Standards Elaborations with the RE Achievement Standard Statement from the RE Curriculum representing the C standard as well.

The RE Standards Elaborations can be found on the last page of each year level RE Curriculum.

The standard elaborations (SEs) provide additional clarity when using the Australian Curriculum achievement standard to make judgments on a five‑point scale. These can be used as a tool for making consistent and comparable judgments about the evidence of learning in a folio of student work and developing task-specific standards for individual assessment tasks.

The SEs are developed using the Australian Curriculum achievement standard. The achievement standard describes the learning expected of students at each year level. Teachers use the achievement standard during and at the end of a period of teaching to make on‑balance judgments about the quality of learning students demonstrate.

The discernible differences or degrees of quality associated with the five-point scale are highlighted to identify the characteristics of student work on which teacher judgments are made. These terms are described in the table from QCAA below.