New Metrics
What is New Metrics?
The New Metrics research-practice partnership is a coming together of like-minded schools who want to embed the teaching, assessment and recognition of complex competencies in their settings, as well as influence broader systemic transformation.
Schooling is ready for a paradigm shift and the implementation of new metrics to assess, credential, and measure student, school and system success.
New Metrics is an opportunity for innovative schools to join with academic experts and international trailblazers to reimagine and influence schooling in Australia – to move away from the ‘grammar of schooling’ that continues to lock our schools into many of the distinctive features of the 20th-century version of education.
Young people must now be educated and assessed in new ways so they are prepared for a very different future.
The partnership provides the opportunity to:
work with other progressive schools that are moving away from the traditional ‘grammar of schooling’
use new and validated assessment tools for complex competencies
generate reports and credentials that recognise a broader range of what a learner knows and can do
influence the development of new policy
garner the necessary support to facilitate real change in schools and systems
connect with national and international networks of like-minded leaders.
What are the competencies Santa Sophia are developing in our students?
What does it look like in action?
In 2023, Year 12 graduates became the first recipients of the Learner Competency Credential (LCC) across the country. This milestone was the result of our Year 12 staff completing assessments using the University of Melbourne's assessment platform, which leverages the deep knowledge our teachers have of their students and the skills displayed in class throughout the HSC year. The LCC is awarded to students and can be added to their LinkedIn profiles. This credential provides students with the language to articulate what they can do with what they know.
