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A common language for talking about standards
Standards: a statement that identifies the knowledge and skills to be learned, assessed, and reported in this content area.
Essential Skills/Understandings: critical concepts, big ideas, terms, principles, theories, processes, and skills required to accomplish course or unit performance standards.
Rubric: a printed set of scoring guidelines (criteria) for evaluating student work (a performance or product) and for giving feedback.
Portfolio: artifacts, examples, and samples of student work which represent student work in progress (or over time) toward a standard.
Content standards specify "what students should know and be able to do."Performance standards go the next step to specify "how good is good enough."
Performance Standards = performance descriptions + work samples + commentaries on the work samples
The performance descriptions tell what students should know and the ways they should demonstrate the knowledge and skills they have acquired.
The National Center for Research, Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (1996) defines criteria as "guidelines, rules, characteristics, or dimensions that are used to judge the quality of student performance. Criteria indicate what we value in student responses, products, or performances."
Proposed Standards:
