Members of the Melbourne Assessment Community are invited to draw from numerous resources to support their journey to assess and report on a range of complex competencies. Key features include:
- Ruby, the University of Melbourne’s online assessment platform
- Teacher and Leader competency kits
- Online professional learning modules
- Events designed to scaffold each school’s journey
All staff from member schools have access to these features and more on the Melbourne Assessment Community portal.
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 and Leader Kits
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
Download a sample kit by clicking on the Agency in Learning icon below.
Agency in Learning Acting Ethically Active Citizenship
Communication Collaboration Quality Thinking
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.