UbD Stage #2

 Stage#2 of the UbD template is designed to focus on assessing students. The assessment is designed in a way that helps students prove their mastery of the content and the level of understanding they have of the content. The authors state that it is essential to design assessments backward with transfer in mind. Transfer is taking what you know and applying it elsewhere. McThige and Wiggins say that there are six facets to understanding. They are explain, interpret, apply, and adjust, perspective, empathy, and self-knowledge. You take these facets and use them to come up with the performance tasks ideas. These tasks are what we use to design rubrics to assess our students. Rubrics are a scoring/ evaluation tool that provides criteria and includes a measurement scale and a description of the levels of performance across the scale.