Deep Learning Assessment Community

The Deep Learning Assessment Community is a network of schools working together to strengthen the assessment and reporting of the Deep Learning Global Competencies through collaboration, a shared language of competency development and professional learning.

This network is delivered in partnership by the University of Melbourne and New Pedagogies for Deep Learning to explore, establish and embed next-generation assessment and reporting practices in schools supporting students to develop the Deep Learning Global Competencies (6 C’s).

Broadening How Deep Learning is Recognised

Schools and educators around the world are increasingly recognising that traditional assessment models capture only part of what young people need to flourish in an uncertain and rapidly changing world. Many of the competencies that matter most are rarely visible in conventional assessment and reporting systems.

Together, New Pedagogies for Deep Learning and Melbourne Metrics are working with schools to develop broader, more meaningful ways of recognising learner capability and success.

The Deep Learning Assessment Community is a global professional network and community of practice for schools seeking to align assessment with their broader educational ambitions of supporting students to develop global competencies. The engagement provides schools with assessment approaches, reporting tools and professional learning support that enable them to strengthen competency-based learning in ways that are authentic to their own context and community.

Schools joining the Deep Learning Assessment Community will:

Join a global network of schools advancing next-generation assessment and reporting practices
Access research-informed assessment and reporting tools designed to make deep learning competencies visible, credible and actionable
Use the University of Melbourne’s Ruby platform to conduct online competency assessments and generate formative and summative learner reports
Strengthen professional judgement through shared learning progressions and common frameworks for competency development
Build educator capability in recognising, interpreting and assessing complex learning in authentic contexts
Participate in a professional learning community committed to shaping the future of learning, assessment and recognition
Access teacher and leader resource kits
Help lay the foundation for broader recognition of transferable competencies in future pathways

This network supports schools to place competencies at the heart of learning, assessment and reporting - while strengthening the quality, consistency and credibility of professional judgement across the school.

Deep Learning Assessment Community schools

Information and Contacts

Interested schools are invited to join the Deep Learning Assessment Community. More information on the resources provided to network members and the commitment required from schools is available here in this flyer.

Download information pack for schools

Schools can register their intent to join the Community by July 24, 2026. After registering, schools will then receive agreements to be signed and returned.

Express Intention to Join

What leaders are saying

International Program Department / Associate Director, Kang Chiao International School, Taiwan

"Joining the NPDL-MAC project in S.Y. 2025–2026 became a major turning point for us. Having access to the competency kits provided much-needed clarity and coherence. Rather than creating everything on our own, we anchored our work in a stronger, research-informed framework while still adapting implementation to our school realities."

Global Capacity Building Facilitator, New Pedagogies for Deep Learning

"The Melbourne Metrics Competency Kits align seamlessly with our NPDL Global Competencies, providing schools and teachers with a direct line of sight between learning design and assessing and measuring the development of competence in the Competencies. Additionally, the kits provide tools and processes that deepen Pedagogical Practices, thoughtfully provoke reflection on Leading Deep Learning, and help build a powerful model of teaching and learning that is based on measuring observable behaviours and allows learners to show what they know and can do."

Partnership Liasion Lead, Melbourne Metrics

"What has been particularly encouraging is seeing schools use the assessment tools and resources to strengthen conversations about learner capabilities and build greater confidence in assessing the 6Cs. With solid teaching and learning frameworks already in place across these schools, the Melbourne Metrics tools and resources have provided a missing piece in the equation, enabling educators to assess the 6Cs through valid and robust assessments. "