Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards



The Australian Curriculum achievement standards are an expectation of the depth of understanding, the extent of knowledge and the sophistication of skills that students should typically demonstrate at the end of a teaching and learning year. In Queensland, the Year 4 Australian Curriculum achievement standard represents a.

The Pre-primary to Year 10 Western Australian curriculum provides a coherent and comprehensive set of prescribed content and achievement standards which schools will use to plan student learning programs, assess student progress and report to parents.

  • V8.1 Australian Curriculum www.australiancurriculum.edu.au December 2015 Page 1 Achievement on a page: Foundation – Subject specific achievement standards are provided as an option The Arts – Foundation to Year 2.
  • Australian Curriculum: English Achievement Standards (F-10) Achievement standards are designed to provide a holistic statement of the level of student achievement at the end of each year of schooling. This representation enables teachers to identify differences in the achievement standards through the phases of schooling.
  • Australian Curriculum Page 1 The structure and development of the Australian Curriculum (K-10) Q: How is the Australian Curriculum organised? A: Content descriptions and achievement standards will be the key elements of the K-10 Australian Curriculum. Content descriptions specify what teachers are expected to teach. They include knowledge, skills.
  • Use this teaching resource to assist with monitoring your students’ progress through the required Australian Curriculum achievement standards. The document is in Task Card format which allows teachers to display the achievement standards for visual learning.

The Western Australian curriculum encompasses ACARA's Australian curriculum English, Mathematics and Science. In addition, year-level syllabuses for Humanities and Social Sciences, Health and Physical Education, Technologies, The Arts and Languages remain broadly consistent with the Australian curriculum but have been contextualised to make them more suitable for Western Australian students and teachers.

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Given the phased implementation of the Western Australian curriculum for Languages, schools may be teaching from the former Western Australian Curriculum Framework.

Other support resources, including sample assessment tasks and sample teaching and learning outlines, for Years 7 to 10 Languages are being published progressively prior to the year of implementation.

For more information about implementation requirements click here.

Head to the Syllabuses:

Across Pre-primary to Year 10, achievement standards indicate the quality of learning that students should typically demonstrate by a particular point in their schooling. Achievement standards comprise a written description and student work samples.

An achievement standard describes the quality of learning (the extent of knowledge, the depth of understanding and the sophistication of skills) that would indicate the student is well placed to commence the learning required at the next level of achievement.

The sequence of achievement standards across Pre-primary to Year 10 describes progress in the learning area. This sequence provides teachers with a framework of growth and development in the learning area.

Student work samples play a key role in communicating expectations described in the achievement standards. Each work sample includes the relevant assessment task, the student's response, and annotations identifying the quality of learning evident in the student's response in relation to relevant parts of the achievement standard.

Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards Curriculum

Together, the description of the achievement standard and the accompanying set of annotated work samples help teachers to make judgments about whether students have achieved the standard.