Transforming Assessment Design: Leading Assessment and Recognition of Complex Competencies

Transform what we assess and how we assess it, so that learners can thrive

With a global shift towards competency based education, educators are looking for new ways to assess and recognise developmental learning in various contexts.

Building on the content covered in Measuring What Matters: Transforming Assessment and Recognition of Complex Learning Competencies, this seven week course takes an in-depth dive into best practice for assessment, learning how to recognise progress and credential competence.

Plan lessons, modules, and work units to support competency based education frameworks

This course will build your capacity to lead others in the assessment and recognition of learners’ complex competencies.

You’ll help young people develop the skills, attitudes, qualities, and capabilities needed to thrive at school and beyond.

Conduct formative and summative assessment of student learning

You’ll deepen your understanding of how to confidently plan for, teach, assess, and report on complex competencies by putting your knowledge into practice throughout the course.

Learn from the experts at The University of Melbourne

You’ll access and use next-generation tools and resources developed by The University of Melbourne, enabling you to adopt the strategies and know-how required to lead transformative work in your setting.

By the end of this course, you’ll have gained a range of skills and techniques to improve the quality and collection of teacher judgements, as well as learning how to provide meaningful feedback to students, recognising their progress in complex competencies.

This course is designed to follow on from the short course, Measuring What Matters: Transforming Assessment and Recognition of Complex Learning Competencies .

It’s designed for educators who have engaged in the short course taster and wish to further their knowledge of designing and implementing new principles of assessment.

It is for educators who wish to build their capacity to lead the improvement of assessment and reporting practices within their setting by broadening the way complex competencies are taught, assessed and reported on.

This course is designed to follow on from the short course, Measuring What Matters: Transforming Assessment and Recognition of Complex Learning Competencies .

It’s designed for educators who have engaged in the short course taster and wish to further their knowledge of designing and implementing new principles of assessment.

It is for educators who wish to build their capacity to lead the improvement of assessment and reporting practices within their setting by broadening the way complex competencies are taught, assessed and reported on.

• Develop an understanding of the who, what, why, with whom and how of scoping learning amtibions
• Identify characteristics of successful recognition design
• Develop skills and processes to select and use assessment frameworks
• Develop an understanding of designing assessment through practical application
• Describe how to lead designing assessments of complex competencies with a team
• Describe how to make judgements, moderate and quality assure evidence
• Explain how, by whom and what the purpose of warranting is