Kristina Hoeppner PRO
Project Lead & Community Facilitator of the open source portfolio platform Mahara https://mahara.org. I work at Catalyst https://catalyst.net.nz in Aotearoa New Zealand. Views are my own.
Kristina Hoeppner Catalyst IT
MoodleMoot Canada
15 May 2025
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Integral to your programmatic assessment approach
Recording
Heard of programmatic assessment?
Yes, but I have not yet looked into it.
Yes, I started investigating it for my programme.
Yes, it's in our toolbox.
No, tell me more.
Where is its origin?
Australia
Canada
Germany
Netherlands
Where are its roots?
Australia
Canada
Germany
Netherlands
Programmatic assessment
"Programmatic assessment is a systematic approach wherein the outcomes of a variety of purposefully selected assessment tasks are longitudinally collected, collated, and combined to obtain triangulated information about a learner's progress in developing key competency domains and capabilities. The accumulated data provides a basis for collective decision making on student progress by faculty (assessment of learning) but also serves to stimulate progress among learners (assessment for learning)."
Conventional assessment
Assessment 1
Assessment 2
Assessment 3
Assessment 4
Learning outcome A
Learning outcome B
Learning outcome C
Learning outcome D
Summative assessment
Source: Baartman, Van Schilt-Mol & Van der Vleuten, 2020
Programmatic assessment
Assessment 1
Assessment 2
Assessment 3
Assessment 4
Learning outcome A
Learning outcome B
Learning outcome C
Learning outcome D
Source: Baartman, Van Schilt-Mol & Van der Vleuten, 2020
Monitoring & decision-making
Competencies
Backbone of programmatic assessment
Feedback
- Ask for it
- From different people
- On artefacts
- Discussed in learning groups
SmartEvidence
- Align portfolio pages to predefined competencies
- Gather feedback from multiple people, e.g. mentor, assessor, tutor, fellow students
- Visualise progress through a framework
Outcomes
- Work on a portfolio collaboratively
- Check in on progress regularly
- Add notes from the educator perspective
- Visualise progress
SmartEvidence: Overview
Competency standards
Portfolio page
Overall assessment / feedback per person
SmartEvidence: Feedback
Your own feedback
Previous feedback
Overall assessment / feedback
Outcomes: Overview
Detailed progress
Overall progress
Portfolio pages
Outcomes: Portfolio page
Artefacts
Regular check-ins
Are you interested?
Prepare students for employment
Assessment for learning
Continuous dialogue through feedback
Lifelong learning
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Contact
Kristina Hoeppner
Mahara Project Lead
kristina@catalyst.net.nz
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catalyst.net.nz
Resources
- Baartman, L. (2025, March 20). Programmatic assessment. Insights from theory and practice. CRADLE Seminar, Melbourne, Australia.
- Heeneman, S., de Jong, L. H., Dawson, L. J., Wilkinson, T. J., Ryan, A., Tait, G. R., Rice, N., Torre, D., Freeman, A., & van der Vleuten, C. P. M. (2021). Ottawa 2020 consensus statement for programmatic assessment—1. Agreement on the principles. Medical Teacher, 43(10), 1139–1148.
- Khanna, P., & Velan. (2024, May 7). Programmatic assessment: Are we there yet? [UNSW Sydney].
- Schuwirth, L. W. T. (2022, August 9). Programmatic assessment, hype or necessary development? CRADLE Seminar Series, Melbourne, Australia.
- Schuwirth, L. W. T., & van der Vleuten, C. P. M. (2011). Programmatic assessment: From assessment of learning to assessment for learning. Medical Teacher, 33(6), 478–485.
Portfolios: Integral to your programmatic assessment approach
By Kristina Hoeppner
Portfolios: Integral to your programmatic assessment approach
Presentation by Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT) at MoodleMoot Canada on 15 May 2025.
