This post provides a deeper look into the ideas of transparency and equity of opportunity, two of JumpRope’s Core Values. Have you ever read through a stack of student assessments and realized that one or more of the questions or prompts you used was somehow “off”? Designing assessments is no easy task, especially performance tasks and those that ask students to create products. As I described in Rubrics: Part 1, The "Why" and "How To", the first step is to figure out what th

This post provides a deeper look into the ideas of transparency, one of JumpRope’s Core Values. In assessing products or presentations, providing our students with an easily understood set of assessment expectations is an excellent way to help hold ourselves accountable and also guide them toward success. We might call that set of expectations a rubric, a scoring guide, success criteria, or something else. In any case, the simple fact of having it provides students with guide