Explain the building blocks for developing an assessment tools in Wiggins and McTighe's backward design
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should include a brief description of the following "blocks:"
Block 1: Develop criteria charts and rubrics for assessing learning as observed in students' performance; identify and confirm standards addressed in the criteria charts and rubrics.
Block 2: Look at student work to determine student movement toward goals.
Block 3: Enable students to identify and articulate in their own language their "next step" goals so that they know and own their personal instructional objectives.
Block 4: Use student data from formative and summative assessments (state-wide testing programs) as indicators of instructional progress.
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