middle school

This performance based assessment asks middle school students to evaluate, "How to people persevere through man made and natural crises?"  

Students will research the economic, political, or cultural causes of their family’s migration in an effort to find examples of perseverance. ...

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...

This CCSS-aligned writing rubric can be used with any task that calls for students to develop a source-based explanation. It assesses students’ ability to establish and maintain a clear controlling idea; select and cite relevant evidence; develop ideas with sound reasoning and accurate...

This CCSS-aligned writing rubric can be used with any task that calls for students to construct an evidence-based argument. It assesses students’ ability to maintain a clear, credible claim; select and cite relevant evidence; develop an argument with sound reasoning and accurate explanation of...