RUBRICS

What is a Rubric?
A rubric is a rating scale that contains a set of assessment criteria that specifies the required characteristics for each level of quality of knowledge, skills, and/or performances.

How can a rubric be used to assess performance?
Rubrics are designed to specifically evaluate the outcomes being measured. Rubrics provide clear evidence to students about grading criteria.  Beyond that, rubrics can help with student self-assessment, peer review of work, assessment of learner or program outcomes, and feedback discussions with students and their parents or other constituents such as accrediting bodies.  They are helpful when the projects are developing and when the work is completed.

Rubric Resources:

RubiStar:Creating Rubrics for Project Based Learning
This site is designed to allow you to create your own rubrics based on information already available in the data base in many content areas.  You can also save your own rubrics you create at this site and then view, edit and print them.  Topics covered in the database are oral projects, research and writing, work skills, multimedia, products, science, math, art and music. You are asked to enter your area code with this site since it has been provided through a grant project.
http://rubistar.4teachers.org

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Teacher Helpers: Assessment and Rubric Information
This is a site with about 20 active links to many of the best rubrics for K-12 schools.  Included are student web page rubrics, subject-specific and general rubrics, technology education rubrics, related articles, information on electronic portfolios, and information on report cards.
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html

Campbell County School District Assessment Rubrics:
Contains sample rubrics for K-12 benchmarks in art, foreign language, language arts, math, music, science, social studies, and wellness.  This appears to be a site that is developing.
http://web.ccsd.k12.wy.us/RBA/RBA.html
 

General Evaluation Rubric for College Papers-This is from Fordham University
and says that it was developed from Advanced Placement Exams rubrics.  It is organized around letter grades highlighting thesis, structure, evidence, analysis, logic/argumentation, and mechanics.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/rubric.html

College Faculty Lesson Plan Assessment Rubric-From Preparing Tomorrow's Georgia Teachers to Use Technology-This site contains an example of a lesson plan evaluation rubric. http://www.pgt.sreb.org/lesson_plans/rubric.html

Baltimore City College: Rubric for Scoring College Prep Papers-This site has one example of a paper for scoring writing papers including a percentage grading guide.
http://baltimorecitycollege.org/faculty/engdept/rubriccp.htm

Dr. Alice Christie's University of Community College Department or Division Website Rubric:
This site provides a rubric for evaluating a college's website.  It would be of assistance to AHED students or administrators even setting up a K-12 school based website with some slight alterations. http://www.west.asu.edu/achristie/webrubric/rubric2u.html

Biology Lab Write-Up-This site has a rubric for self and teacher evaluation of a student's lab write-up. http://hackensackhigh.org/~rmd/cplabrubric.htm

University of Michigan-Dearborn-Comps Portfolio and rubrics for science education majors-This site contains multiple sets of rubrics used to assess scientific literacy. experimental design, science standards, science resources, etc. for a portfolio comps project required of college students. http://www.umd.umich.edu/sep/portfoliocomps.htm

Iowa State University Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Programs-Rubrics-This site has rubrics designed for this program including ones on foundations, interpersonal skills, intrapersonal skills, oral presentation, stewardship, technology and written communications. (You need to follow through the ELPS headings to get to these rubrics.)
 http://www.educ.iastate.edu/