Consider the stakeholders for deciding when students hit the target. Teachers, students, and parents may all serve a role. Also, decide who will use the results of the assessment. Not only teachers, students, and parents may be involved, but also principals, counselors, and district administrators may have a stake in the results. Finally, you must decide if the purpose of this assessment will result in ranking your students or allow for mastery over time of hitting the target.
Products Use knowledge and reasoning capabilities to produce a product.
Choose methods that best fit the target. For example, knowledge content often is best assessed with selected response tests. Skills and products are usually best assessed with performance assessment instruments. Or will it be part of a portfolio collection and count as a fraction of a grade for cumulative efforts over a period of time. In summary, you must define clear targets to hit coupled with specific purposes for hitting them, and then match the method of assessment with the target.