anchor papers

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 protocol leads teachers through the process of scoring student work reliably and accurately using anchor papers, rubrics, scoring guidelines.