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Learning Goals and Success Criteria

Learning goals and success criteria are critical pieces of information students need to be successful learners. Students and teachers must hold a common understanding of what is to be learned, and what successful achievement looks like. With explicit goals and criteria, students have the beginnings of what they need to become independent, self-monitoring learners.

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Viewing Guide: This viewing guide facilitates learning about the assessment approaches shown in the video, and provides support for trying new practices. It contains references, tools and templates, and should be used in conjunction with the viewing of the video. PDF   797 K    
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Segment 1: The Foundation of Assessment for Learning (7:39)
Learning goals and success criteria are the foundation on which students base their ability to monitor their learning and determine next steps.		   FLV MP4   124 M
Segment 2: Developing Learning Goals (7:49)
 Learning goals are brief statements that describe, for students, what they should know and be able to do by the end of a period of instruction		   FLV MP4   127 M
Segment 3: Sharing and Clarifying Learning Goals (8:19)
By ensuring that students clearly understand learning goals, teachers set the stage for students to be able to focus their efforts on achieving the goals, monitoring their progress, and setting their own goals.		   FLV MP4   135 M
Segment 4: Developing Success Criteria (6:17)
Success criteria describe what success “looks like”, and when used to give descriptive feedback when assessing, provide both the teacher and the student information about learning.		   FLV MP4   102 M
Segment 5: Helping Students Understand Criteria (6:54)
Success criteria describe, for students, what successful learning ‘looks like’. It is critical to students’ success that they and their teacher have a clear and shared understanding of the criteria.		   FLV MP4   112 M
Segment 6: Co-constructing Success Criteria (8:42)
By directly involving students in the development of criteria, teachers help students to develop a common understanding of the criteria by which performance will be judged.		   FLV MP4   212 M