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Sandra Milligan

Jul 23
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Updated: 7 days ago

Executive Director of Melbourne Metrics


Professor Sandra Milligan is Executive Director of Melbourne Metrics (MM), a research-based social enterprise within the University of Melbourne that works with schools and authorities to transform the way we assess and report on student learning. 


Originally a teacher of science and mathematics, she is also a former Director of Curriculum in an Australian state education department and has held senior research, management and governance positions in a range of educational organisations.  She directs several research partnerships with school networks and organisations working to develop Learner Profiles for their students, including the New Metrics International Schools (NMIS) program, run in partnership with the Council of International Schools. Sandra also leads MM's collaborations with the International Baccalaureate to develop an IB Overlay to MM's approach to assessing and recognising competencies.  She is the Lead Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council funded 'Matching for Success' project which aims to design a new system for tertiary selection in Australia. 

KEYNOTE

  • Measuring what matters: Assessment as a leaver to broaden the definitions of learning success


SESSIONS

  • Enduring human competencies required to thrive in an AI world: Shifting students from consumers of teaching to producers of their own learning

  • Matching for Success: School leaders' transformational power to lead the system






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