Certificate of Achievement

Riaz Hussain

has completed the following course:

Measuring What Matters: Transforming Assessment and Recognition of Complex Learning Competencies

The University of Melbourne

This three-week course explored how to transform assessment in recognition of complex competencies, examining how The University of Melbourne’s research-based approach to assessment and credentialling is influencing global policy and practices.

3 weeks, 3 hours per week

Sandra Milligan

Director and Enterprise Professor, Assessment Research Centre

The University of Melbourne

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Describe the policy context of assessing and recognising complex competencies
  • Define learning ambitions and consider new ways of measuring learner success
  • Define complex competencies and how they can be taught, assessed and recognised
  • Describe the need for a new grammar of schooling, new learning designs, new assessments and new ways to recognise complex competencies
  • Explain the elements and process of assessment design for recognising complex competencies

Syllabus

The three-week course covers the following key themes:

Week 1: New learning ambitions: What will enable students to thrive in the future?

  • Global policy and practices
  • Teaching and assessing complex competencies

Week 2: New assessments and new standards

  • Contemporary approaches to learning, assessment and recognition of complex competencies
  • Learning, assessment and recognition design
  • It’s all about alignment

Week 3: Making it happen

  • Using the University’s assessment platform, Ruby, to assess Agency in learning
  • Alignment and the process of change
  • Evaluating school/organisation and self
  • What have we learnt and where to from here

Issued on 18th September 2023

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Free online course:

Measuring What Matters: Transforming Assessment and Recognition of Complex Learning Competencies

The University of Melbourne