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  Assessment Rubrics

Rubrics are guides that help to score and grade the performance of students. Rubrics can be used by both instructors and students when creating, scoring, grading, or providing feedback on course tasks and assignments. These performance guides can help to provide a common understanding between students and instructors regarding the learning and performance expectations. Rubrics can also be used to evaluate student work collected for purposes of assessment, program evaluation, and improvement of student learning.  Highline's own Standards, Outcomes, & Competencies Committee (SOCC) offers a number of Assessment Tools, including Assessment Rubrics samples and step by step guidelines.

Why are rubrics used?
“… we believe that the rubric and criteria design process must be more centered on teaching and learning than scoring. Beyond scoring, we believe that there are six reasons for using rubrics, to:

  1. Focus instruction---intentionally.
  2. Guide feedback---descriptively.
  3. Characterize desired results---objectively.
  1. Operationalize performance standards---purposefully.
  2. Develop self-assessment competence---constantly.
  3. Involve students---thoughtfully.”  

(Office of Assessment, Kansas State University)

Rubrics Information on the Web

Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment  (North Carolina State University)

Rubrics in the Age of Accountability (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Generic Rubrics (Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges)

Rubrics for the University learning outcomes (Bowling Green State University)

Teacher Created Rubrics for Assessment (University of Wisconsin - Stout)

Papers from the ERIC database

Understanding Scoring Rubrics: a Guide for Teachers
Boston, Carol     2002     98pgs.

 Using General Education Assessment Rubrics to Document Basic Skills and Content Knowledge
Hegler, Kay L.   2003    19pgs.

Reflective Teaching: A Good Practice Even at the University Level.
Higgins, Betty  2003   12pgs.

 
   
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last updated 11 Sep 2007