1 Senior schooling in Queensland

QCE & QCIA handbook

• 1 Senior schooling in Queensland
  • 1.1 Background to the QCE system
  • 1.2 Key elements of the QCE system
  • 1.3 Defining characteristics of the QCE system
  • 1.4 Equity in education
  • 1.5 Partnership with schools
• 2 Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE)
  • 2.1 Eligibility for a QCE
  • 2.2 Categories of learning
  • 2.3 Additional VET QCE credit rules
  • 2.4 Recognised studies
  • 2.5 Transfer students
  • 2.6 The Student Management application and the Student Portal
  • 2.7 Issue of a QCE
• 3 Queensland Certificate of Individual Achievement (QCIA)
  • 3.1 Eligibility for a QCIA
  • 3.2 The QCIA process
  • 3.3 QCIA reporting
  • 3.4 QCIA quality assurance processes
  • 3.5 Applying for review of QCIA information
• 4 Queensland curriculum
  • 4.1 Syllabuses
  • 4.2 Delivery approaches to curriculum
  • 4.3 Resources
  • 4.4 Syllabus review and revision
• 5 Vocational education and training (VET)
  • 5.1 VET Quality Framework
  • 5.2 VET in Queensland schools
  • 5.3 VET procedures for school RTOs
  • 5.4 VET roles and responsibilities
  • 5.5 VET results and VET certificates
• 6 Access arrangements and reasonable adjustments (AARA)
  • 6.1 Principles
  • 6.2 Eligibility for AARA
  • 6.3 Roles and responsibilities for AARA
  • 6.4 Reporting and approving processes for AARA
  • 6.5 Illness and misadventure
• 7 The assessment system
  • 7.1 Principles and attributes of assessment
  • 7.2 Assessment literacy
  • 7.3 Assessment requirements
  • 7.4 Developing a comparable assessment instrument
• 8 School assessment policies
  • 8.1 Understanding academic integrity
  • 8.2 Integrating learning and assessment
  • 8.3 Administering internal assessment
  • 8.4 Developing a school assessment policy
• 9 Internal assessment — Quality assurance
  • 9.1 Quality management system
  • 9.2 Study plan approval
  • 9.3 Course of study (2024 Applied syllabuses)
  • 9.4 Units 1 and 2
  • 9.5 Applied quality assurance (Units 3 and 4)
  • 9.6 Endorsement (Units 3 and 4)
  • 9.7 Confirmation (Units 3 and 4)
• 10 External assessment
  • 10.1 External assessment roles and responsibilities
  • 10.2 Developing and marking external assessment
  • 10.3 Scheduling external assessment
  • 10.4 External assessment venues
  • 10.5 Preparing for external assessments
  • 10.6 Administering external assessments
• 11 Determining and reporting results
  • 11.1 Determining results
  • 11.2 School reporting responsibilities
  • 11.3 QCAA reporting responsibilities
  • 11.4 Subject result ratification and anomalies
  • 11.5 Applying for verification of information
• 12 Roles and responsibilities
  • 12.1 Principal
  • 12.2 Principal’s delegate
  • 12.3 Subject leaders
  • 12.4 Teachers
  • 12.5 QCAA assessors
• 13 Administration
  • 13.1 The QCAA Portal
  • 13.2 Student Management application
  • 13.3 Retaining records and student work