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

This common analytic rubric can be used with English language arts performance tasks to assess textual analysis skills.

This common analytic rubric can be used with English language arts performance tasks to assess textual analysis skills.

This common analytic rubric can be used with English language arts performance tasks to assess research and/or argumentation skills.

This CCSS-aligned common analytic rubric can be used across performance assessments. The rubric assesses a student's 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 the discipline...

This report seeks to make large-scale assessments of student achievement more transparent and provide guidance on item development and quality. The report provides an in-depth look at what is assessed in a selection of current large-scale assessment items to illustrate what kinds of student...

Throughout history, people who have been called “explorers” have been associated with making discoveries and changing the way others view the world.  Stories of their journeys have turned them into heroes who found new trade routes, created new maps, gained land and wealth for their home...

This quality review tool is used to evaluate performance tasks for inclusion in this resource bank.

These criteria aim to communicate design principles for the creation of quality performance assessments. 

Performance assessments offer a departure from traditional assessment frameworks. In performance assessments, students develop and demonstrate mastery of standard-aligned content and...

This document, created for the Common Assignment Study project by the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE), lists and explains the criteria of a quality LDC task, including task clarity and coherence, content, texts, and the writing product.

Understanding Language/Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (UL/SCALE), in partnership with WestEd, invite you to explore a new resource designed to support educators in learning from student work on performance tasks. Understanding Proficiency (understandingproficiency....

This is a semi-structured, teacher-led learning activity in which teachers organize themselves to share the results of their performance assessments - student work samples - with other teachers in their school; to gain confidence in their ability to score accurately using common scoring rubrics...

This document, created by SCALE for Summit Public Schools, will 

• define “anchor papers;” 
• distinguish between selecting work for calibration and selecting work to serve as anchors; 
• describe considerations and criteria for selecting anchor papers; 
• outline
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This document provides a glossary of terms related to scoring and rubrics: anchor papers, benchmark papers, rubric dimensions, analytic rubric, holistic rubric, etc.

The Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity (SCALE) has developed a updated quality checklist for rubric quality.  This checklist was designed to guide educators who are developing and using rubrics as part of performance assessments.  

This updated version of the tool assists...

This tool describes 9 principles to guide the process of teacher scoring of student work products.

In this task, students will work in teams and use their current knowledge about acids, bases, and neutralization reactions.

They will design and conduct an experiment to determine the pH of a fictional drug (Relieve IT) intended to relieve cold/flu symptoms and the pH of four unknown...

This task asks students to consider whether texts should be edited in order to remove potentially offensive content.

An examination of opinion pieces about the editing of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is followed by a comparison reading of two versions of a scene from...

Student teams will research and define the terms “efficiency” and “energy efficient.” Based on their research, teams will design and build a vehicle. Then they will experimentally test the vehicle’s efficiency.

After analyzing the initial data of the vehicle’s performance, teams will re-...

In this task, students are given a simulation about a family concerned with saving money and energy by better insulating their house. Students are given a set of information regarding heating bill costs over time, costs of insulation investments, and additional constraints, and are asked to...

This performance task requires students to demonstrate their ability to read and analyze a short text as well as the ability to write an essay that requires them to take a position and support it with evidence. Before students complete the reading and writing assessments they will participate in...