Transforming Assessment Design: Leading Assessment and Recognition of Complex Competencies
Description
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.
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Syllabus
- Scoping learning ambitions
- Getting started
- Introduction to Week 1
- Identifying learning ambitions
- Identifying complex competencies to equip learners to achieve their ambitions
- Implementing assessment and recognition
- Leading assessment and recognition of complex competencies
- Bringing it all together
- Designing recognition
- Introduction to Week 2
- What is a trusted recognition system?
- Co-design learning partners
- Trusting recognition
- Bringing it all together
- Selecting and customising assessment frameworks
- Introduction to Week 3
- Understanding assessment frameworks
- The Melbourne Assessment suite of competency frameworks
- Bringing it all together
- Designing assessments
- Introduction to Week 4
- Defining assessment
- Alignment and assessment design
- Using tasks, activities, and performance opportunities to assess complex competencies: Designing to elicit performance
- Quality evidence
- Designing for alignment
- Bringing it all together
- Assessment in practice – having a go
- Introduction to Week 5
- Planning assessment for complex competencies
- Planning and assessing your students
- Your turn to use Ruby
- Supporting colleagues
- Bringing it all together
- Making judgements, moderating, and quality assurance
- Introduction to Week 6
- Using Ruby reports
- Building trust in judgement-based assessment
- Building capacity and confidence in new generation
- Bringing it all together
- Warranting
- Introduction to Week 7
- Understanding warranting
- Levels of trust
- Warranting considerations
- Leading the transformation
- Assessment
- Bringing it all together
- What’s next?
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Transforming Assessment Design: Leading Assessment and Recognition of Complex Competencies
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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.
- Scoping learning ambitions
- Getting started
- Introduction to Week 1
- Identifying learning ambitions
- Identifying complex competencies to equip learners to achieve their ambitions
- Implementing assessment and recognition
- Leading assessment and recognition of complex competencies
- Bringing it all together
- Designing recognition
- Introduction to Week 2
- What is a trusted recognition system?
- Co-design learning partners
- Trusting recognition
- Bringing it all together
- Selecting and customising assessment frameworks
- Introduction to Week 3
- Understanding assessment frameworks
- The Melbourne Assessment suite of competency frameworks
- Bringing it all together
- Designing assessments
- Introduction to Week 4
- Defining assessment
- Alignment and assessment design
- Using tasks, activities, and performance opportunities to assess complex competencies: Designing to elicit performance
- Quality evidence
- Designing for alignment
- Bringing it all together
- Assessment in practice – having a go
- Introduction to Week 5
- Planning assessment for complex competencies
- Planning and assessing your students
- Your turn to use Ruby
- Supporting colleagues
- Bringing it all together
- Making judgements, moderating, and quality assurance
- Introduction to Week 6
- Using Ruby reports
- Building trust in judgement-based assessment
- Building capacity and confidence in new generation
- Bringing it all together
- Warranting
- Introduction to Week 7
- Understanding warranting
- Levels of trust
- Warranting considerations
- Leading the transformation
- Assessment
- Bringing it all together
- What’s next?
