Review of the Australian Curriculum: Final Report
- ISBN-10
- 1743618085
- ISBN-13
- 9781743618080
- Category
- Curriculum evaluation
- Pages
- 363
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Author
- Australia. Department of Education
Description
In 2008, with the establishment of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), it appeared that critical momentum had finally been achieved to develop a truly national curriculum. Commencing with English, mathematics, science and history, ACARA began the task of creating the Australian Curriculum. Other learning areas were soon added to that list: geography, languages and the arts followed in a second phase of development, with the Australian Curriculum to be completed by technologies, economics and business, civics and citizenship and health and physical education in a third phase.The Review was established by the Australian Government to evaluate the development and implementation of the Australian Curriculum. The desire to ensure Australia was performing well in the international context as measured by tests such as Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS),Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) was also an important part of the motivation for the Review. The Reviewers are aware that it is the Ministerial Council which ultimately determines the nature and extent of the Australian Curriculum, and ha ve explicitly considered the evidence and its findings in the context of Australia's federal system and the constitutional responsibility of the states and territories in relation to school education. The Reviewers accept that the Australian Curriculum is a general improvement on previous attempts to gain greater national consistency in determining what all students, regardless of where they go to school, should know, understand and be able to do. It is also acknowledged that education authorities, teachers and schools have invested significant time, energy and resources and Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has expended considerable efforts to develop the Australian Curriculum to this point. [Executive summary,ed]
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