Stage+Two

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence Component Assessment evidence is the 2nd stage of the framework [|Understanding by Design]. Assessment evidence demonstrates understanding and mastery of skills by authentically applying learned skills in a set of creative and purposeful activities. Performance tasks must leave students responsible for connecting to essential questions. Rubrics are designed to measure or evaluate distinct traits of understanding and successful performance and self assessment.

Activities - students are asked to exhibit their understanding using emerging skills or new knowledge through authentic and purposeful tasks. No longer is it necessary to have students recite, regurgitate or match superficial topics. We can now move from passive activities to highly involved inquiry based performance tasks. Students are now invited to inquire, reveal opinions, make connections, validate, conclude while simultaneously collaborating to answer the essential questions. Students explore big ideas through experiential activities and are encouraged to relate to relevant real life experiences outside of the classroom and in their immediate community. Students are unknowingly performing critical thinking skills under the auspices of discovery and creative play. The activity should encourage them to confront alternative perspectives.

Performance Assessments - A variety of appropriate and purposeful assessment formats provided as additional evidence of learning and understanding. The primary six facets of understanding such as interpretation, explanation, application and self-knowledge are used to reinforce the answers of the essential questions and its direct connection to the enduring thought.

Rubrics - Appropriate criterion-based rubrics are used to judge students products and performances. Not only the technical merit of their products and performance, but also their achievement of working individually and collectively as well as their skill in persuading their fellow students and the teacher that they have grasped the enduring understanding. A well written rubric can also measure and ensure that students are confident in their answers to the essential questions.

Collaboration & Misc. Resources For more information also see: [|What Constitutes Assessment Evidence]?