calibration

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.

This tools leads teacher teams through the process of calibrating scoring of student work with a lens ot exploring the instructional implications of the prompt/task, student work, and rubric. The process takes approximately one hour to complete.