Success Criteria

Assessment for Learning

 The Difference Between Learning
Goals and Success Criteria
Learning Goals Success Criteria
Broad statements Specific
General intentions
Concrete
Describe what is to
be learned Describes what
Connect to big success looks like
ideas and prior when the learning
learning goal is reached
Often not
measureable Measureable
 Learning Goal
2 Star & a Wish
Big Idea: Scarcity and economic trade-offs are essential to all economic activity. (Econ 1)
+ Success Criteria FA Strategy
I can:
Understand the differences between Identify examples of producers within our local
For practice:
producers and consumers in a market area.
economy. Define consumer and identify characteristics of
Identify an essential concept or skill from the
consumers
provide examples of how producers and
Iowa Core you will be teaching. consumers are affected by the market economy
I can:
Write a learning goal for a lesson you intend to
Understand the ways goods and
services are produced and
identify methods of distribution in todays global
economy
teach that essential concept or skill.
distributed. explain the methods people and governments use

Share with aidentify

to produce goods and services
collaborative learning
and explain the affect resources have on team
member. the production of goods

I can:

Provide each other descriptive feedback in the

Understand the influences that affect explain how limited resources create the need for
personal economic choices. choices.
form of 2 Stars
identify &
costs a Wish
and benefits (2 things you really like
of a choice.
identify and evaluate incentives.
and 1 suggestion or wish) analyze choices and predict consequences.
Example of Learning Goal and Success
Criteria from the Iowa Core
Social Studies, Geography, Grades 6-8
Essential Concept: Understand how geographic and human
characteristics create culture and define regions.
Big Idea: Geographers have developed regions as tools to examine,
define, describe, explain, and analyze the human and physical
environment.

Learning Goal Example: Success Criteria Examples:

Understand that geographic
regions define both
convenient and manageable
units upon which to build our
knowledge of the world.
I can describe a region by its
defining characteristics.
I can explain how geographers
use regional information.
Learning Goal
The learning goal is
like the target.

It defines, for
students, what
learning is intended.
Success Criteria
These are the arrows
that help the learner
achieve the target
and demonstrate
mastery.
 The Difference Between Success
Criteria and Behavioral Objectives
Success Criteria Behavioral Objectives
I can use the STAR The student will use the
Notetaking strategy while STAR Note Taking strategy
listening to another student while listening to a student
present. presentation.
I can describe natural Students will describe the
selection and tell why process of natural selection
variation is important. and why variation is
I can recite a poem from important to the process.
memory. Students will memorize and
recite a poem.
The use of the terms success criteria and learning
objectives can be confusing.
Lets clarify them.
 CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING
Sort each statement as a learning goal, success criteria, or
behavioral objective

The student will identify the main idea in each

paragraph.
I can check my prediction of the area by measuring
and finding out if some of the shapes are bigger than
others or if they take up the same amount of area.
The student will understand that paleoclimatological
evidence is analyzed to reveal historical patterns of
warming and cooling on the Earth.
Summary of research by Shirley Clarke, often described as a foremost
authority on the practical application of formative assessment.

THE AIM IS FOR CHILDREN TO ASK

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO LEARN?
RATHER THAN WHAT ARE WE GOING
TO DO?.