Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE)

This resource provides a outline comparing types of instructional methods with a range of response options.

This resource compares task complexity with depth of learning in pictoral form.

This protocol provides a structured process and a set of analytic questions to guide a collaborative discussion centered around student work. It is best used for collaborative learning among teams of educators.

This resource outlines elements of unit quality as well as guiding questions to promote collaborative analysis of student work.

This resource provides a template to plan instruction.  The template is divided into three sections:

1)  identify desired results

2)  determine acceptable evidence

3)  plan learning experiences and instruction

This resource provides a detailed guide on how to train teachers to formally score student performance assessment work that has been submitted for a grade, as a part of graduation portfolio requirement, for a diploma endorsement, or as part of a college application (summative purposes...

In this task, students will learn how to measure reaction time and then they will explore how various factors affect their individual reaction time as well as the reaction time of other students in class.

This guide provides you with the information you need in order to prepare students...

Students will write an essay that uses evidence from primary sources and background knowledge to make an argument and answer a historical question. Students will need to read and analyze documents to create a thesis-driven essay. Before students write their individual essay, they will...

This CCSS- aligned common analytic rubric can be used across performance assessments. The rubric assesses a student's ability to construct viable arguments, critique the reasoning of others, and to model with mathematics by using appropriate sources and applying the knowledge and skills of the...

As Summit Public Schools has defined them, Cognitive Skills are practices necessary for college and career readiness, synthesized from major nationally accepted standards and revised and vetted in partnership with SCALE. The cognitive skills rubric dimensions are broad enough that they have a...

Engaging students in meaningful applications of their knowledge is a key aspect of both addressing the standards and providing greater access. Not only do the standards emphasize the importance of meaningful engagement in real-world tasks, but evidence shows that engagement is strongly related...

This rubric assess students' communcation skills in three key areas: writing, oral presentation, and oral interaction. Individual sections can be used with specific performance tasks and/or in combination with disciplinary rubrics.

This common analytic rubric assesses problem solving and critical thinking skills. It can be used across disciplines in combination with another rubric or on its own.

This common analytic rubric assesses students' artistic expression, specifically an art product or products and an accompanying artist statement. The rubric can be used on its own or in concert with a content-related rubric.

This NGSS-aligned common analytic rubric assesses students' ability to design an experiment, develop and use models, and analyze and interpret data within the discpline of science. 

This NGSS-aligned common analytic rubric assesses students' ability to articulate a science-related issue, make a claim, identify evdience, justify a claim, and evaluate an argument within the discpline of science. 

This common analytic rubric assesses argumentative writing within the discipline of history, with a focus on document-based argumentation.

The rubric was developed for the New York City Department of Education Local Measures Project.

This common analytic rubric is for use with history/social studies tasks in the middle grades. It was developed for the New York City Department of Education Local Measures Project.

This common analytic rubric assess students' ability to effectively communicate knowledge and thinking through writing by organizing and structuring ideas and using discipline appropriate language and conventions.

This common analytic rubric evaluates students' ability to reason, problem-solve, develop sound arguments or decisions, and create new ideas by using appropriate sources and applying the knowledge and skills of a discipline.