Criteria for Success Checklist

This checklist will help you develop your criteria for success.

• Can students use the criteria while they are working on the assignment to determine whether they are completing the assignment efficiently and effectively?
• Do the criteria take the form of a checklist students can use to evaluate the quality of their efforts while they are working on the assignment?
• Does the checklist specify characteristics of high quality work for this assignment?
• Can you help students apply the checklist to evaluating some sample work in class, so they understand how each criterion would look in practice?
• With your guidance, can the students collaboratively annotate several examples of work to indicate where/how the work satisfies the criteria? (These annotated examples may then be shared as a reference for students to use while they work on their own assignments.)
• Would a rubric be helpful to students for this assignment?
• Does the rubric provide an amount of information that helps students at this phase in their learning?
• Does the rubric provide an overwhelming or counterproductive amount of information for students at this phase in their learning?
• Did you provide examples of good work, annotated to identify exactly where and how this work satisfies your criteria?
• Can you provide students with examples in class so they and you can test out your criteria checklist or rubric to be sure students know how to apply the criteria to multiple examples of work, and eventually their own work?

The Draft Checklist for Designing a Transparent Assignment was created by Mary-Ann Winkelmes in 2016 and adapted in 2021 by Amy Stanforth and Ann Matsushima Chiu and is released CC BY NC SA