School and Network Partnerships
Melbourne Metrics supports educators to confidently teach, assess, report on and credential the complex competencies learners need to thrive at school and beyond.
The University of Melbourne invites innovative networks and schools to join with academic experts and international trailblazers to reimagine and influence the future of schooling – to move away from the ‘grammar of schooling’ that continues to lock our schools into many of the distinctive features of the 20th-century version of education.
Networks and schools work with experts at Melbourne Metrics to access University technology to:
- use new and validated assessment tools as a lever for transformational change; measuring what is valued, so that what is valued can be learned
- generate reports and credentials that recognise a broader range of what a learner knows and can do
- influence the development of new policy
- garner the necessary support to facilitate real change in schools
- connect with national and international networks of like-minded educators
Networks and schools benefit from working alongside an eco-system of innovative school leaders and academic, policy and industry authorities that value competence as essential to a learner’s current and future learning journey, personal and social wellbeing, and pathway opportunities.
Beyond the gains of individual schools lies the transformative potential of collectively supporting and informing much-needed systemic change.
Use Next-generation Assessments
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- Build expertise
Develop the capacity of staff to lead the assessment and recognition of learner’s competencies.
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- Determine learning ambitions
What complex competencies do you intend to develop in your learners?
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- Design learning and assessment
Quality learning design provides learners with opportunities to learn, exercise and demonstrate complex competencies.
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- Make judgements
Use the University’s Ruby assessment platform to make judgements about learning.
Generate reports and credentials
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- School-level reporting
Rocket Competency Reports, for formative assessment purposes and teacher planning
Fan Competency Profiles, for semesterly reporting to learners and families
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- Credential learning attainment
Learners can attain a Melbourne Metrics Competency Credential, digital and printable certifications of their learning, warranted by The University of Melbourne.
Credentials are issued for learners at key transitions of schooling: Primary to Secondary; Middle Years to Senior; School to post-school.
All schools come to this work from different starting points. Some have worked for years to have a learning design that embeds the teaching and practice of complex competencies. Others are just starting out.
For all, the common missing pieces are:
- a standards-based set of assessment tools that are robust, reliable, transferable, comparable, and context-agnostic
- a recognition system that values a broad range of learning
- resources to support teacher planning
- professional learning for teachers and leaders
- connecting with a community of like-minded innovators
Your school's journey
Schools committed to using assessment and recognition to support transformation of learning in their settings will go on a journey of typically two to three years.
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Join us. Partner with Melbourne Metrics.
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Engage in Professional Learning. Build leader and teacher capacity to use new metrics for learning.
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Conduct Formative Assessments. Teachers assess learners and generate ‘rocket’ competency reports that support their planning.
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Generate School Reporting. Teacher assessments are aggregated to produce yearly or semesterly reports for learners and families.
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Warranting & Moderation. Melbourne Metrics conducts an audit to support and verify a school’s assessment procedures.
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Produce Credentials. Learners attain warranted University of Melbourne credentials that recognise a broad range of their competencies.
Ruby
To support teachers' judgments of learners' complex competencies, teachers can access the University's online assessment platform, Ruby.
Teachers can learn what to expect from Ruby by trying out a Year 5 - Year 8 sample assessment. This sample assessment allows teachers to assess students for Agency in Learning and generate a Rocket competency report.
Teacher resources
Competency kits have been developed to support teachers to plan for the teaching and assessment of a range of complex competencies.
Each kit provides:
- a conceptual framework of the competence; the ‘building blocks’ to consider when planning
- learning progressions for a range of ages/stages, to support teachers to know how what the development of competence looks like
- advice for planning assessment opportunities; the kinds of performances, tasks and activities that support learners to demonstrate competence
Professional learning
The University has designed a series of ten online professional learning modules to support teachers and leaders.
Measuring What Matters shares the first three modules for free. The University welcomes interested educators to use and share these resources.
Transforming Assessment Design is a seven-module course for leaders and aspiring leaders to learn how to lead the assessment and recognition of complex competencies. Partner schools receive fully subsidised enrolments in this course.
A community
Leaders from partner schools commit to attending three online seminars per year, accessed via the partner portal. These events:
- Provide support to school leaders
- Scaffold schools through different parts of the learning journey
- Allow the University to convene guest presenters and share insights into related policy developments
In addition, partners can attend optional touch-base sessions (to share opportunities or problems of practice) and will receive invitations to other events offered by Melbourne Metrics and the Faculty of Education.
Melbourne Metrics welcomes networks and schools to partner with The University of Melbourne.
Partnership opportunities include:
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Option 1- LEARN
- Online professional learning modules to build your capacity as a leader of the assessment and recognition of complex competencies
- For individual educators
- $330 per person
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Option 2- ASSESS & REPORT
- A scaffolded two-year journey to: build team capacity; align learning ambitions, learning design and assessment design; and generate formative and summative reports of learners’ complex competencies.
- For networks and schools
- A$8,000 p/a
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Option 3- CREDENTIAL
- Credential learning attainment with warranted certification. With this end in mind, commit to a two-year journey that supports teams to plan for, teach, assess and credential complex competencies.
- For networks and schools
- A$14,000 p/a
Partnership option features
LEARN | ASSESS & REPORT | CREDENTIAL | |
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Individual educator | Network/ School | Network/ School | |
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING | |||
Enrolment in online professional learning course, ‘Measuring what matters’ | ✓ | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Enrolment in online leadership development course, ‘Transforming assessment design’ | 1 | 2 staff members | 2 staff members |
Access to Melbourne Metrics research and industry reports | ✓ | ✓ | |
Invitations to Melbourne Metrics webinars and events | ✓ | ✓ | |
Guidance to scaffold school journey | ✓ | ✓ | |
ASSESSMENT RESOURCES | |||
Whole-staff access to Melbourne Metrics partner portal | ✓ | ✓ | |
‘How to Assess...’ Competency kits for teachers | Limited | ✓ | ✓ |
Use of online assessment platform, Ruby | Limited | ✓ | ✓ |
Melbourne Metrics helpdesk technical support | ✓ | ✓ | |
Use of student self-assessment tools | ✓ | ✓ | |
Analytics-based alerts for quality assurance | ✓ | ||
REPORTING | |||
Auto-generated formative 'rocket' competency reports (for teaching planing) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Aggregated summative 'fan' competency profiles (for school reporting, e.g., end of semester reports to families) | ✓ | ✓ | |
UoM-led school audit | ✓ | ||
Moderation guidance | ✓ | ||
Benchmarking data | ✓ | ||
UoM quality assurance and warranting report (school-level) | ✓ | ||
UoM warranted credential per learner | $60 | ||
ANNUAL FEE (plus GST or any applicable taxes) | A$330 per person | A$8,000 | A$14,000 (+credentials, A$60 per credential, per learner) |
Meeting your needs
Speaking with us about customising the work for your network or school.
Additions:
- Production of bespoke assessment frameworks.
- Customised professional learning, with additional online or face-to-face engagements.
- Translation and/or validation for other educational contexts (e.g., international).
- UoM-led school audit (for ASSESS & REPORT partnership).
- Network project management support.
Reporting:
- Co-branded reports and credentials.
- Additional or customised student registration fields to be collected and shown on reports.
- Additional reporting, including more frequent reporting to the system or network, or customised reporting with additional detail.
Technology:
- Co-branded network portal and online assessment platform.
- Data services, including provision of data files and exports, data integration with other support services or systems, and data merging or integration.
- Customised server hosting arrangements.
- Tailored access management, including integration with enterprise solutions or additional third-party services.
By invitation only: New Metrics research-practice partnership
Melbourne Metrics’s New Metrics research-practice partnership is at the forefront of global research and development work. Partner schools lead and contribute to transformational agendas and drive solutions to the big practical problems in education today.
New Metrics is a cross-sectorial collaborative research venture with schools from across Australia and New Zealand. It is grounded in all partners co-contributing to a common agenda that strives for greater equity and opportunity for all learners, using assessment and credentialing of complex competencies to influence system and policy shifts.
The work of New Metrics involves:
Align
Promoting alignment of policy and system reward and is influencing the development of new ideas about metrics for success for learners, schools and systems.
Grow
Building the capacity and reputation of participants as innovative and progressive leaders.
Support
Accessing University technology and researchers to support the generation, collation and analysis of school-based data.
Promote
Schools working with the University to develop and publish case studies that promote the program and the schools’ innovations.
Educate
Professional learning for school staff to build their capacity to be leaders in the assessment and recognition of complex competencies.
Network
Participating in a range of events, including face-to-face and online seminars with University academics, industry leaders, system-level leaders, educational influencers and innovative school leaders.
Collaborate
Collaboration with a wide range of schools, across systems and states/territories within Australia.
School partners have the opportunity to share their progress, receive critical feedback, and establish relationships with a range of schools, experts and influencers from across the education sector.
More than a mark: how to measure learning success without ranks and tests
On 20 September 2022, Faculty of Education's Dean's Lecture Series invited Professor Sandra Milligan to explain new ways of assessing and credentialing, along with what they mean for learners, their teachers, employers and tertiary selectors. Professor Milligan amplified the New Metrics work by paying homage to the New Metrics research-practice partnership schools and the big challenge that they are tackling.
The University of Melbourne is privileged to work alongside our school partners. These forward-thinking partners are leading educational transformation at a national and international level.
New Metrics partner schools
Melbourne Assessment Community partner schools
Melbourne Assessment Community portal
For existing Melbourne Assessment Community schools
Access the Community's online resources and events
Launch member-only community portal
Please note: For issues relating to the community portal, please get in touch with community support.
New Metrics event portal
For existing New Metrics schools
Access New Metrics online resources and events
Please note: For issues relating to the New Metrics portal, please get in touch with New Metrics support.