How to Make an Effective Rubric

Resources to help you create and develop a useful rubric.

By Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning

Good rubrics have three key advantages:

1. If you develop them, they help you align your assignment with your outcomes.
2. They help you have similar marks for different students’ assignments of similar quality (inter-rater reliability), if you practice using them with other instructors or your TAs.
3. They increase student understanding of the skills you want them to demonstrate and focus your students specifically on those skills.

A good rubric is very helpful but they can be hard to develop. The video below describes why we use rubrics, common mistakes we make as we create them, and how to make a good one.

 

Dig further: Watch this one-hour session by Sue Brookhart on creating and using rubrics.


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This resource is shared by the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning (GMCTL), University of Saskatchewan, under a CC BY-NC-SA license.