Curriculum Policy and Major Education Reports
Queensland – Key Documents – the 1985 Context
A Review of School-based Assessment (ROBSA) in Queensland Schools (Scott Report) – 1978
- Involves a review of two prior reports, Schools under Radford (K. Fairbairn et al., 1976) and Some Consequences of the Radford Scheme for Schools, Teachers and Students in Queensland (W. J. Campbell et al., 1975).
- Includes 36 major policy recommendations, as well as 60 supplementary recommendations.
- Significant recommendations include the replacement of norm-based assessment procedures with competency-based assessment procedures, and the abolition of current moderation procedures with a system of subject accreditation.
Report of the Select Committee on Education in Queensland (Ahern Report) – 1980
- Includes six ‘interim’ (but in themselves definitive) reports, and a seventh ‘final’ report, of a wide-ranging review into all aspects of state education in Queensland.
- The focus of the reports is on significant issues of the day: school-based assessment, the place of social studies and human relationships courses, literacy and numeracy, and post-secondary education.
Education 2000. Issues and options for the future of Education in Queensland. A Discussion Paper – 1985
- Based on a review of the organisational effectiveness and operational efficiency of the Department of Education.
- Emphasises central themes of curriculum relevance and continuity from stage to stage and the responsiveness and flexibility of institutions in dealing with the demands placed upon them.
- Submissions on the ideas set out in the paper were summarised and published in a report in the following year, on the basis of which 42 recommendations were made.