Tools and Ideas for Creating Your Rubrics
Many of these rubrics grew out of a long-term commitment to building alternative assessments in our Instructional Design, and Math Specialist and Teaching and Assessing Writing online courses.
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Our Top Five Rubrics
Quick Links to Rubrics
- Discussion, Teamwork, and Group Work Rubrics
- ePortfolio and Web Page Rubrics
- Concept Map and Graphic Organizer Rubric
- Video and Multimedia Project Rubrics
- Math and Science Rubrics
- Virtual Simulations and Games Rubric
- Research Process Rubrics
- Writing Rubrics
- Rubrics for Primary Grades
- Presentation Rubrics
- Tools for Creating Your Rubrics
Presentation Rubrics
Video Conferencing Rubric
Maggie Rouman's rubric assesses real-time sessions to foster community, present topics, and enhance learning.
Podcast Rubric
Ann Bell's rubric helps students assess what makes a good podcast.
PowerPoint Rubric
10 performance categories
Oral Presentation Rubric (Word doc)
VoiceThread Participation Rubric (pdf)
Michelle Pacansky-Brock's general formative assessment is used when students view a mini video lecture/presentation. Contributions are rated on originality, comprehension, and clarity.
Oral Presentation Checklist
4Teachers.org provides an online tool to customize the checklist for your grade level
Effective Project Presentations
Buck Institute for Education (BIE) rubric for high school presentations
Speaking and Writing Rubrics bilingual education (English and Spanish)
Spanish Partial-Immersion Program Rubrics for Writing and Speaking in English and Spanish for Grades 1-5
Social Media Project Rubrics
Wiki Rubric
Criteria for assessing individual and group Wiki contributions.
Blog Rubric
Assess individual blog entries, including comments on peers' blogs.
Twitter Rubric
Assess learning during social networking instructional assignments.
Discussion, Teamwork, and Group Work Rubrics
Online Discussion Board Rubric
Criteria for assessing the ability to share perspectives, refine thoughts through the writing process, and participate in a meaningful discussion
Primary Grade Self-Evaluation Teamwork Rubric (PDF)
Features of a sandwich to graphically show the criteria
Upper Elementary Teamwork Rubric
Karen Franker's rubric includes six defined criteria for assessing the team and individual responsibility
Middle School/High School Collaboration Rubric
Six defined criteria for collaboration with strong performance descriptors
ePortfolio and Web Page Rubrics
These rubrics are related to our Instructional Design courses.
e-Portfolio Rubric
Electronic portfolio rubric created by Joan Vandervelde includes 7 categories with 4 levels of achievement
Web Page Rubric
Joan Vandervelde's rubric details 9 categories for evaluating a web page
CyberFair Peer Review Student Web Page Rubric
Online feedback form for CyberFair Project.
Concept Map and Graphic Organizer Rubric
Graphic Organizer and Mind Map Rubric
Concept map diagram rubric to assess a visual storyboard of a final project or to chart a flow of work and ideas by Karen Franker
Storyboard Rubric
Concept map and/or storyboard specification of instructional sequencing and messaging details.
Video and Multimedia Project Rubrics
These rubrics are related to our Elearning and Online Teaching course and flipped classroom course.
Video Project Rubric
Joan Vandervelde lists criteria for video production and editing
Multimedia Project Rubric
Rubric developed by Caroline McCullen, Jamie McKenzie, and Terrie Gray
Virtual Simulations and Games Rubric
Assessing Student Learning in Virtual Simulations and Serious Games
A grading rubric created by Ann Bell with 6 performance criteria
Research Process Rubrics
Research Process Rubric - Elementary
Karen Franker's rubric to assess planning, gathering, organizing and citing information in grades 3-5
Research Process Rubric - Middle School
Karen Franker's rubric assesses performance with the research process
Rubric for Research Process
Joyce Valenza's rubric assesses 5 research performance areas for high school students
Research Process Reflection
Joyce Valenza's Question Brainstormer encourages students to ask focus questions and reflect on the research process
Academic Research Writing and APA Formatting Rubric
Kay Lehmann's rubric for high school or college level
Writing Rubrics
These rubrics are related to our Teaching and Assessing Writing courses.
Student-Friendly Writing Rubric
Samples of Student Writing, Scored With a 6+1 Trait Rubric
An extensive archive of assessment materials associated with the 6-Traits assessment approach.
NWREL's Six Traits of Writing Rubric
English and Spanish versions of the 6-Traits of Writing Rubric and other rubrics for listening, public speaking, and reading
Writing Rubrics K-12 - Opinion/Argument, Narrative, and Informative/Explanatory
Research Paper Rubric (Word doc)
Rubric for Scoring Effective Writing (Word doc)
Persuasive Essay Rubric (Word document)
Reflective Writing Rubric (PDF)
Reflection Paper Rubric (PDF)
Historical Fiction Essay Rubric (pdf)
Blake Green's history class rubric.
Rubrics for Middle School
Includes invention report, book talk, persuasive essay, and autobiographical event essay
Autobiographical Rubric (PDF)
Math and Science Rubrics
These rubrics are related to our Math Specialist courses.
Math Rubrics
4 levels of math understanding with performance criteria
NCTM Math Standard Rubric (pdf)
Performance criteria for problem-solving reasoning and proof communication connections representation
Science Rubric (pdf)
Performance criteria for the use of scientific tools, science reasoning and strategies, science concepts and use of data and communication
Scientific Report Rubric
Easy to modify for any kind of high school research report
Physics Project Rubric
A good example of a performance rubric tuned a specific project. Easy to adapt to other subjects.
Rubrics for Primary Grades
Kindergarten Rubrics
Assess literacy development
Kindergarten Rubrics
Evaluates communication, fine muscle development, emergent reading and writing, large muscle development, math development, creative arts, personal development, and work habits, play, and social skills.
Primary Grade Self-Evaluation Teamwork Rubric (PDF)
Features a sandwich to graphically show when all criteria are met
Third Grade Venn Diagram Rubric
Tools for Creating Your Rubrics
These tools are explored in our e-learning course.
Rubistar
Choose a topic and create a new rubric based on a template. Save and edit your rubric online.
Rubric Template
Insert the task and criteria into this template.
Rubric Template (Word doc)
Word document template to download and modify to meet authentic assessment needs (University of West Florida).
iRubric develop rubrics and access them from anywhere
Single-Point Rubric (Word doc)
Rubric Generator
Build your own grading rubrics online by filling out a form. You can include a graphic and print the rubric.
Readings about Authentic Assessment
Helpful background information about rubric design and implementation in the classroom.