The Measuring What Matters: Transforming Assessment in Schools online course is a flexible, actionable learning journey for participants to learn how to assess and credential complex competencies. Participants have the option to learn at their own pace or they can coordinate with colleagues to work through modules simultaneously in, for example, a series of professional development sessions at school. There are 10 modules.
The first three modules provide participants with the what and why of assessing complex competencies, and the global shift in thinking about teaching, assessing and credentialing complex competencies.
The next seven support participants to:
- lead the assessment and recognition of complex competencies
- create the conditions for transformed assessment design
- use the University’s psychometrically validated tools and resources to assess learners’ complex competencies
- design credentials
Importantly, this course gives participants the tools they need to test this out in their own setting.
Program FAQ
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Existing partner schools in New Metrics, New Metrics International Schools (NMIS), New Metrics Flexi and the Melbourne Assessment Community (MAC) are eligible for subsidised places in the course. Please contact your relevant project team to nominate learners from your school.
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Each module consists of numerous activities and steps. It is anticipated that each module takes approx. 3 hours. You can take these at your own pace.
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Measuring what Matters: Transforming Assessment in schools is an excellent way to initiate leaders and teams of staff into building a whole-school approach. We recommend undertaking this journey with numerous staff across teams by having them collaborate while working through.
It is important to build champions of this work in your school; leaders who have had a go at leading a group of staff to plan for, teach, assess, and credential learners’ attainment of competence. We recommend that schools have 1 – 5 champions complete Measuring what Matters: Transforming Assessment in schools in order to build capacity in leading transformed assessment design.
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The University of Melbourne regularly works with large networks to facilitate collaborative learning journeys. Please contact us (email: assessment-community@unimelb.edu.au) to discuss.