Students succeed when educators start with the end goal in mind. Whenever possible, these responses should be obtained from students of varying achievement. Key questions purposes for assessment why are we assessing and how will the assessment information be used. Designing cornerstone tasks to anchor the curriculum presented by jay mctighe educational consultant phone.
Jan 21, 2002 grant wiggins is a nationally recognized assessment expert who has been working in assessment reform for more than twentyfive years. In this third of a fivepart series, educators jay mctighe and grant wiggins suggest that that educators unpack the ccss into four broad categories 1 longterm transfer goals, 2 overarching understandings, 3 overarching essential questions, and 4 a set of recurring cornerstone tasks. He is a regular speaker at international, national, and state conferences. Every lesson, assignment, and interaction shapes your students brains. Seven practices for effective learning educational. Jay has coauthored 17 books, including understanding by design with grant wiggins.
He served as director of the maryland assessment consortium, a state collaboration of school districts working together to develop and share formative. Assessment for learning 2009 jay mctighe 3 think photo album versus snapshot sound assessment requires multiple sources of evidence, collected over time. In the classroom, eqs are used to stimulate students discussions and promote a deeper understanding of the content. Two general types of rubrics holistic and analytic are widely used to judge student. Collect a full range of student responses for each assessment task.
This book is written by grant wiggins, jay mctighe and name. Whether you are an understanding by design ubd devotee or are searching for ways to address standardslocal or common core state standardsin an engaging way, jay mctighe and grant wiggins provide practical guidance on how to design, initiate, and embed inquirybased teaching and learning in your classroom. Arter, judy and mctighe, jay 2000 scoring rubrics in the classroom. The understanding by design framework ubd framework offers a plan ning process and structure to guide curriculum, assessment, and instruction. Association for supervision and curriculum development ascd article pdf available february 2017 with 7,734. Design and use criterionbased evaluation tools and rubrics for assessment, including. You may have to cut and paste the url to access the site if the hyperlink is not automatic. Audiences for assessment for whom are the assessment.
Guskey and jay mctighe to ensure that preassessment is worth the time and effort, keep these principles in mind. Download understanding by design by grant wiggins, jay mctighe pdf book online. Ferrara, steven assessing learning in the classroom. Thousands of educators across the country use the understanding by design framework, created by grant wiggins and jay mctighe, to get a handle on standards, align programs to assessments, and guide teachers in implementing a standardsbased curriculum that leads to student understanding and achievement. A performance task is any learning activity or assessment that asks students to perform to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and proficiency. Scoring and anchoring performance assessments presented by jay mctighe educational author and consultant email. Basic incourse assessment with feedback or personal oneone interaction with jay s team to achieve performance task certification. Jay mctighe and ken oconnor teachers in all content areas can use these seven assessment and grading practices to enhance learning and teaching. Emphasising the teachers critical role as a designer of student learning, ubd works. Backward design, assessment, and rubrics based on understanding by design by grant wiggins and jay mctighe backward design process identify desired results what should students know, understand, and be able to do.
Ways in which teachers communicate learning targets. Advance uncorrected copy not for distribution 1703 n. We will explore the standards, skills, and related assessment strategies and practices that could become the basis of true competencybased educational. Assessments enhance learning when the end learning goals, assessments and assessment. Ways in which teachers communicate learning targets, chteria, and standards for performance to their students steven ferrara gall goldberg maryland department of education jay mctighe maryland assessment consortium paper presented at the annual meeting of. He has served as director of the maryland assessment consortium, a collaboration of school districts working to develop and share formative performance assessments. Guskey and jay mctighe to ensure that pre assessment is worth the time and effort, keep these principles in mind. Understanding by design ubd is a framework for improving student achievement. The brain is always changing, as a result of environment and experience. They provide descriptions and examples of diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment. Prior to this position, jay was involved with school improvement. A prevalent misconception about standards in general is that they simply specify learning goals to be achieved. Content standards what do we want students to know, understand, and be able to do.
Enduring understanding what are the big ideas and essential questions of. Jay mctighe brings a wealth of experience developed during a rich and varied career in education. Assessment for learning 2009 jay mctighe 1 chris wants to decide which of two spot removers is best. Assessment 2020 by jay mctighe, kristina doubet, and eric carbaugh, this book includes practical and easytouse resources that will help show how effective performance. Ways in which teachers communicate learning targets, chteria, and standards for performance to their students steven ferrara gall goldberg maryland department of education jay mctighe maryland assessment consortium paper presented at the annual meeting of the american educational research association. Designing cornerstone tasks to anchor the curriculum. In this case, students and their teachers become partners in the classroom assessment process, relying on studentinvolved assess ment, record keeping, and. Classroom assessment and grading practices have the potential not only to measure and report learning but also to promote it. Performance tasks yield a tangible product andor performance that serve as evidence of learning. Designing authentic performance tasks and projects. Three key questions on measuring learning virginia association. In this section, we examine these stages and illustrate their application with an example of a design for a 5th grade unit on nutrition. Publishing these test scores establishes accountability, comparing schools and districts, and resulting in consequences for schools that fail to achieve annual.
Assessing learning in the classroom jay mc tighe and steven ferrara. While the current assessment landscape is replete with assessments that measure knowledge of core content areas such as language arts, mathematics, science and social studies, there is a comparative lack of. A prevalent misconception about standards in general is that they simply specify learning goals to. Performancebased assessment in the classroom jay mctighe.
Grant wiggins understanding by design 1 of 2 youtube. Peer nomination form have students complete a peer nomination form. The group uses an established scoring rubric to evaluate student performance according to the following procedure. First, he tried spot remover a on a tshirt that had fruit. This book was featured at the mac assessment learning network aln professional learning event in march. Jay discusses the challenges of trying to learn to surf. Developing and using quality rubrics to evaluate and improve. Ways in which teachers communicate learning targets, chteria.
Authors grant wiggins and jay mctighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of understanding by design. Michigan state university workshop backward design by cori fatahartley. In the middle oval we sharpen and prioritize our choices by specifying important knowledge, skills, and concepts that have connective and transfer power, within this unit and with other units of study on related topics. Isbn0810620707 19980000 48p for an earlier related document, see ed 393 870. The criteria within a rubric should be directly linked to the targeted outcomes in. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the ubd framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators. Skills assessment, the partnership for 21st century skills 2007 describes this need and the implication for assessments of students. Understanding by design by grant wiggins, jay mctighe pdf.
Assessing understanding 2016 jay mctighe page 6 as a fitness trainer, your task is to design a personalized plan to help a client meet their fitness goal. Why are w e assessing and how will the assessment information be used. Seven practices for effective learning educational leaders. Audiences for assessment for whom are the assessment results intended. Sources and resources wiggins, grant, and jay mctighe. Mctighe and oconnor have summarised key assessment practices that improve both teaching and learning. This article began with a conversation between two friends who had different perspectives on the use of preassessments. Free video program from the arts in every classroom series using ubd to design multiarts curriculum units view video.
The goal is to create a menu for the 3day trip to the out. Transforming 21 st century standards and skills into a coherent curriculum and assessment system that emphasizes deep learning and longterm transfer is the focus of this session with educational consultant and noted author jay mctighe. Assessment for learning 2009 jay mctighe 3 getting to know your students. Developing and using quality rubrics to evaluate and. Seven practices for effective learning jay mctighe and ken o. A rubric is a widely used evaluation tool consisting of criteria, a measurement scale a 4point scale, for. Pdf using performance taskgrasps to assess student. He is president of the educational consulting firm authentic education, and with jay mctighe, coauthor of understanding by design, an awardwinning framework for curriculum design used around the world. Classroom assessment practices that promote learning. The understanding by design framework ubd framework offers a planning process and structure to guide curriculum, assessment, and instruction. Performance task professional development pd with jay mctighe. The understanding by design guide to creating highquality units offers instructional modules on the basic concepts and elements of understanding by design ubd, the backward design approach used by thousands of educators to create curriculum units and assessments that focus on developing students understanding of important ideas. Buy jay mctighe ebooks to read online or download in pdf or epub on your pc, tablet or mobile device.
This is the fifth post in a fivepart series which takes a look at five big ideas for implementation of the common core state standards, authored by jay mctighe and grant wiggins. Educator grant wiggins leads a workshop at avenues on understanding by design ubd, a framework for improving student achievement that helps teachers clarify learning. Essential questions eqs help target standards as you organize curriculum content into coherent units that yield focused and thoughtful learning. Jay mctighe author and educational consultant email. The understanding by design guide to creating highquality. The backward design process the logic of backward design suggests a planning sequence for curriculum.
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