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The industry-funded Assessment Research Centre (ARC) is an academic enterprise unit specialising in valid assessment and recognition of complex competencies, and hard-to-assess learning. The centre's focus is on improving assessment, reporting, credentialing and warranting of learning in the industry through original research, consulting, publication, product development, teaching, training and commercialisation.
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New Metrics for Success
A collaborative research venture between The University of Melbourne and selected forward-thinking schools to work in partnership to address the meta-problems faced by Australian schools today and in the future.
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Webinar: Propelling education through a COVID-19 world
Episode 2 - Professor Sandra Milligan on: What skills and resources will students need to be agile and thrive, as they head into the world? What needs to be done now to fix a system where many students don’t get what they need to thrive?
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Future-proofing students: What they need to know and how educators can assess and credential them
MGSE Industry Report By Enterprise Professor Sandra Milligan, Dr Rebekah Luo, Associate Professor Eeqbal Hassim & Jayne Johnston
Services and capabilities
- Development, testing and validation of testing and assessment tools and instruments, online, paper-based and multi-modal, in multiple languages
- Development of progressions and assessment matrices to support quality assessment of complex competencies
- Credentialing and certification of learning, including micro credentials
- Conduct of multinational, multi-year, multidisciplinary assessment surveys
- Provision of consulting, advisory and evaluation support for organisations innovating in their testing, assessment and recognition of learning strategy or approach
- Provision of modelling and technical support to support valid measurement of learning
- Curriculum, teaching and assessment integration
- Supervision of research higher degree students
- Professional learning for school-based staff and policy-makers