Transforming Assessment Design

The Transforming Assessment Design online courses are tailored to provide 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.

Learning Modules

STEP 1: Measuring What Matters: Transforming assessment and recognition of complex competencies

In this course, you’ll learn the what and why of assessing complex competencies, and the global shift in thinking about teaching, assessing and credentialing complex competencies.

Duration: 3-week modules (approximately 3 hours per module)
Cost: Free

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STEP 2: Transforming Assessment Design: Leading assessment and recognition of complex competencies

In this course, you will learn how 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.

Duration: 7-week modules (approximately 3 hours per module)
Cost: $330

Existing Melbourne Metrics partner schools eligible for subsidised places in this course should contact us to arrange enrolments.

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Program FAQ

  • 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.

  • Measuring what Matters: Assessment and recognition of complex competencies is an excellent (and free!) way to initiate teams of staff into building a whole-school approach. We recommend continuing 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 Transforming Assessment Design: Leading assessment and recognition of complex competencies in order to build capacity in leading transformed assessment design.

  • The University of Melbourne regularly works with large networks to facilitate collaborative learning journeys. Please contact us to discuss.