The University of Melbourne supports educators to confidently teach, assess, report on and credential the complex competencies learners need to thrive at school and beyond.
The University works with innovative schools in two types of engagements:
The Melbourne Assessment Community (MAC)
- A University service that provides schools with the professional learning, events, teacher and leader resources, and online assessment and reporting tools required to teach, assess and report on a range of complex competencies in their learners
- All schools, national and international, are invited to join the community
Research-practice partnerships
- Collaborative research projects that lead innovation and development in the assessment and credentialing of complex competencies
- Invitation only. Read more about our research projects, such as New Metrics, the International Big Picture Learning Credential, and the Australian Learner Competency Credential.
Why work with us?
Within these engagements, 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
How we can help you
Next-generation assessments will support your school to:
- Build expertise. Develop the capacity of staff to lead the assessment and recognition of learner’s competencies
- Determine learning ambitions. What complex competencies do you intend to develop in your learners?
- Design learning and assessment. Quality learning design provides learners with opportunities to learn, exercise and demonstrate complex competencies.
- Make judgements. Use the University’s Ruby assessment platform to make judgements about learning.
More than a mark: how to measure learning success without ranks and tests
Professor Sandra Milligan explains new ways of assessing and credentialing, along with what they mean for learners, their teachers, employers and tertiary selectors in her 2022 Dean’s Lecture. Professor Milligan pays homage to schools working in partnership with the University to tackle a big challenge facing Australian schooling.