Assessment Rubrics

• Stephen F. Austin State University’s, the University of West Florida’s, and Winona State University’s lists of rubrics for various disciplines, skills, and college-level assignments include examples from many campuses. Note the link you can use to suggest additional examples for Winona State’s list.
• Examples of rubrics for general education outcomes:
• AAC&U’s VALUE (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education) meta rubrics for a variety of general education skills & dispositions, based on reviews of  rubrics from many campuses.
• The fall/winter 2011-12 issue of AAC&U’s peerReview focuses on campus experience with the VALUE rubrics. Some individual articles are available as html pages; the whole issue can be downloaded as a pdf file.
• California State University, Fresno, with suggestions for developing and using rubrics (pdf files).
• College of Charleston’s links to general education rubrics.
• DePaul University, with suggestions for developing and evaluating rubrics.
• North Central College.
• Palomar College. Select benchmarks.
• State University of New York rubrics for campus-based general education assessment (pdf files; scroll down to Strengthening Campus-Based Assessment). From SUNY’s system-wide general education assessment initiative; posted by Binghamton University.
• University of Hawai’i at Manoa (Word documents, pdf files).
• Rubrics for graduate thesis & dissertations.
• Sites designed for K-12 education but useful as models and adaptable for higher education performance assessments.
  • Assessment Matters! has lots of rubric examples, plus other K-12-oriented assessment links.
  • Rubric generators create rubrics for various topics.
  • RubiStar lets you find, create, and save rubrics. From the Advanced Learning Technologies (ALTEC) project at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning.
  • Steps in creating an assessment rubric, from the WebQuest site at San Diego State University.
• Issues in creating effective rubrics
  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the:
    • March 2010 thread Centering and Rasch Analysis, initiated by David Eubanks, which deals with several issues about using rubrics & analyzing rating-scale results.
    • February 2012 thread Rating Scales vs. Rubrics, initiated by Michele Dornisch.
    • November 2012 thread Logistical Questions Re: Institution-Wide Assessment of Gen Ed Outcomes, initiated by Laura Henderson, which deals with several issues about using rubrics & analyzing rating-scale results.
    • January 2013 thread Student Affairs Co-Curriculum – Beyond Mapping to a Measured Outcomes Record, initiated by Stan Dura, and the associated thread Student Affairs Co-Curriculum – Beyond Mapping to a Measured Outcomes Record + Outcomes -> Grades. The discussion includes questions of whether on-the-spot and end-of-term performance ratings are direct or indirect assessment and issues in combining several ratings into an overall score.
    • May 2014 thread Introduced, Developed, Mastered? initiated by Juan Ramirez.
    • September 2015 thread Rubrics: Writing and Visual Literacy, initiated by Mary Wright.
    • Judgements of Quality: Connecting Faculty Best Assessment With Student Best Work
• A brief description of a report from a multi-campus project that involved developing & norming assessment rubrics. The full report is available for purchase.
• • • From Association for General and Liberal Studies.
  • Popham (1997), What’s Wrong — and What’s Right — with Rubrics?.
  • Tierney & Simon (2004), What’s Still Wrong with Rubrics: Focusing on the Consistency of Performance Criteria Across Scale Levels.
• Many of the tools to help organize assessment information include rubric modules.