Backward Design Three Stage Wiggins Mctighe UbD Lookup

Audit the three Understanding by Design stages: desired results, acceptable evidence and learning plan. Reports missing stages and order inversions; distinct from standards-alignment coverage and not proof of instructional efficacy.

Description

Understanding by Design starts with desired results, then considers acceptable evidence and a learning plan.

Understanding by Design starts with desired results, then considers acceptable evidence and a learning plan.^[1]

This audit compares observed stages with your declared order and reports coverage and local order inversions.

When to use Backward Design Three Stage Wiggins Mctighe UbD Lookup

Use this tool to review missing stages and local order inversions. Establish the learning task, observed evidence and applicable framework or policy edition.

How to use Backward Design Three Stage Wiggins Mctighe UbD Lookup and understand its results

Establish the learning task, observed evidence and applicable framework or policy edition.
Enter callerObservedBackwardDesignStageIds, callerStageDeclaredOrder, using the field meanings and rules below, then run the tool.
Read missingDeclaredStageIds, orderInversionIndices. Inspect nested result fields where present, and review unknown records separately from known matches.
Correct any reported input issue and run again. Before using a successful result, check the stated units, signs, reference scope and observation coverage.

Input field	Meaning	Value type	Requirement
callerObservedBackwardDesignStageIds	Caller observed backward design stage ids	list of string	Required
callerStageDeclaredOrder	Caller stage declared order	list of string	Required

Require a nonempty unique nonblank declared stage list. An observed list can be empty; otherwise it must also be unique and nonblank. Every observed stage must belong to the declared list. Return declared stages absent from observations, in declared order, and zero-based observed positions whose declared rank is lower than the immediately previous observed rank. This is a local adjacent inversion check, not a count of all inverted pairs. Exact strings are matched without normalization.

missing=declared−observed; inversions={i≥1:declaredRank(observed_i)<declaredRank(observed_(i−1))}

Use the matching field units and the exact boundary, ordering and reference rules above.

Output field	Meaning	Value type
missingDeclaredStageIds	Missing declared stage ids	list of string
orderInversionIndices	Order inversion indices; zero-based positions in the relevant supplied record or adjacent-pair list	list of number

json

{
  "input": {
    "callerObservedBackwardDesignStageIds": [
      "desired-results",
      "learning-plan"
    ],
    "callerStageDeclaredOrder": [
      "desired-results",
      "acceptable-evidence",
      "learning-plan"
    ]
  },
  "output": {
    "missingDeclaredStageIds": [
      "acceptable-evidence"
    ],
    "orderInversionIndices": []
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

The declared sequence and its source edition are supplied inputs. Coverage does not measure mastery, consent, teaching quality or learning effect. Observed stages must be unique, so record separate cycles separately when the activity revisits a stage.

Missing required fields, unknown fields, wrong types and violated rules return input issues. Numeric values and outputs must be finite. Lists and matrices must be dense, without missing cells. Numeric lists allow at most 10000 entries; ordinary string lists allow at most 128 strings of 128 UTF-16 units each; numeric matrices allow at most 128 rows and 128 columns, subject to narrower requirements above.

Alternative or Complementary methods

For a related step, use Pacing Guide Coverage Versus Mastery Tension Lookup: Curriculum coverage records whether an objective was addressed, whereas mastery needs separate evidence of learning. For a complementary comparison, use Gagne Nine Events of Instruction Sequence Lookup: Gagné’s events of instruction provide a framework for organizing learning activities and support.

References

Backward Design Three Stage Wiggins Mctighe UbD Lookup — tool.io

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Pacing Guide Coverage Versus Mastery Tension Lookup
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