The term 'success criteria' was coined in the UK. It is synonymous with 'assessment criteria' but, instead of reminding students of their (perhaps negative) experiences of being assessed, this term focuses (much more positively) on students' ability to succeed. Sometimes the success criteria might be just a series of dot points. For lengthy assessment tasks, however, teachers often use rubrics which will provide students with the success criteria and also with descriptions of a number of different levels of performance in relation to those criteria. This is part of a rubric which shows one of the success criteria and describes the three levels of performance that relate to that criterion. The following links explore success criteria in more detail. Background Uses of success criteria and rubrics How to design rubrics Reflection, practice and evaluation