Design Standards
 

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Use the following design standards to evaluate unit designs.

 

Identify Desired Results A
 lot		 Some A little
To what extent are the targeted understandings      
  • Big ideas (as opposed to basic facts and skills) in need of uncoverage?
  • Specific enough to aid teaching and assessing?
  • Framed by provocative essential and unit questions?
       
       
Determine Acceptable Evidence      
To what extent does the assessment evidence proved      
  • A valid and reliable measure of the targeted understandings?
  • Sufficient information to support inferences about each  student's understandings?
  • Opportunities for students to exhibit their understanding through authentic performance tasks?
       
       
Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction      
To what extent will      
  • Students know where they're going and why (in terms of unit goals, performance requirements, and evaluative criteria?)
  • Students be engaged in digging into the big ideas of the unit (through inquiry, research, problem solving, and experimentation?)
  • Students receive explicit instruction on the knowledge and skills needed to equip them for the required performances?
  • Students have opportunities to rehearse, revise, and refine their work based on feedback?
  • Students self-assess and set goals prior to the conclusion of the unit?

 

 

 

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From Understanding by Design, Wiggins, Grant and J. McTighe, 1998, 187
Alexandria, Virginia, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
   

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