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

Syllabus

• Week 1

  New learning ambitions so that learners thrive

  • Introductions

    Let’s start by learning more about ourselves, each other and the team behind this course.

  • Global policy and practice

    Change is happening globally – there are new ambitions for learners to be able to thrive.

  • New learning ambitions frameworks

    Forward-thinking education leaders, teachers and their communities are establishing new learning ambitions for students, encompassing the broader and deeper learning now required for young people to thrive at school and beyond.

  • New Metrics research-practice partnerships

    Describe the need for a new grammar of schooling, new learning designs, new assessments and new ways to recognise complex competencies.

  • Building your ambitions framework

    To thrive, learners need broader and deeper learning experiences. Frameworks for complex competencies describe the increasing levels of sophistication evident in learning behaviours.

  • Complex competencies

    Define complex competencies and how they can be taught, assessed and recognised.

• Week 2

  Complex competencies: Designing learning, new assessments and new forms of recognition

  • Learning design

    Learning design takes into account the day-to-day learning experiences that are aligned with learning ambitions and positions learners as active agents in their own learning.

  • Assessment design

    New learning assessments are designed to assess complex competencies based on observable learner performances that are aligned with learning ambitions and learning design.

  • Recognition design

    The Assessment Research Centre has been leading international research informing the teaching, assessment and recognition of complex competencies. The keys to good recognition are trust and utility.

  • It’s all about the alignment

    Educators are moving to contemporary approaches to align learning design, assessment and recognition of complex competencies.

• Week 3

  Making it happen

  • Using Ruby to assess agency in learning unpacked

    In Week 2, Professor Milligan introduced both the agency in learning framework and the University of Melbourne’s Ruby platform. It is now time to delve deeper and take an opportunity to use both.

  • Alignment and the process of change

    Leaders in successful schools and organisations have led and supported the implementation of change processes to align assessment practices and recognition to the learning ambitions and learning approaches they have adopted.

  • Evaluating your school/organisation and yourself

    Frameworks are available to assess both your school/organisation’s readiness to implement assessment and recognition of complex competencies and your capacity to lead this transformation in your context.

  • What have we learned and where to from here?

    Reforming the design and organisation of learning to reflect new learning ambitions requires new metrics for success and a new generation of approaches to assessment, ensuring student thriving can be measured and recognised.

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