Having a well-designed rubric for your course assignment can be a very useful tool, but as anybody who’s created rubrics can tell you, they’re not the easiest thing to design. In the past my approach has been to start with someone else’s rubric and adapt it for my purposes. I still think having examples and templates is incredible useful and inspiring, but after readings Stevens and Levi’s (2005) Introductions to Rubrics: An Assessment Tool to Save Grading Time, Convey Effective Feedback, and Promote Student Learning, I’ve learned the value of writing my rubrics from scratch. Stevens and Levi provide a relatively straightforward method for creating rubrics, which I have condensed down into the following infographic, along with some information on rubric types. This isn’t meant as a replacement for reading their book – I highly recommend it! – but it’ll give you an idea about how the process they created works and whether you think it might be valuable to you. I hope it is.
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