rubric

In this paper, Linda Darling-Hammond and Beverly Falk describe evidence of how student-performance assessments support teachers' learning from the United States and around the world, particularly in countries that have been recognized for their high-performing educational systems. The authors...

The purpose of this resource is to explore rubric creation and scoring to better understand rubric use in schools and classrooms.  By examining "cookie quality," educators can practice utilizing a rubric and following an inquiry-based template.

The New York Performance Standards Consortium (Consortium) has developed a proven practitioner developed, student-focused performance assessment system for its 28 member schools in New York City and State. Its validity was confirmed by the NY State Education Department and the NY Board of...

This protocol was designed to help rubric and checklists designers incorporate standards or learning targets in the development process.

This tool was designed by Learner‐Centered Initiatives to help rubric developers attend to their quality attributes. These attributes pertain to the content, dimensions, descriptors, levels and layout.

This CCSS- aligned common analytic rubric can be used across performance assessments. The rubric assesses a student's ability to construct viable arguments, critique the reasoning of others, and to model with mathematics by using appropriate sources and applying the knowledge and skills of the...

This CCSS-aligned writing rubric can be used with any task that calls for students to develop a source-based explanation. It assesses students’ ability to establish and maintain a clear controlling idea; select and cite relevant evidence; develop ideas with sound reasoning and accurate...

This CCSS-aligned writing rubric can be used with any task that calls for students to construct an evidence-based argument. It assesses students’ ability to maintain a clear, credible claim; select and cite relevant evidence; develop an argument with sound reasoning and accurate explanation of...

This CCSS-aligned writing rubric can be used with any task that calls for students to construct an evidence-based argument. It assesses students’ ability to maintain a clear, credible claim; select and cite relevant evidence; develop an argument with sound reasoning and accurate explanation of...

This CCSS-aligned writing rubric can be used with any task that calls for students to develop a source-based explanation. It assesses students’ ability to establish and maintain a clear controlling idea; select and cite relevant evidence; develop ideas with sound reasoning and accurate...

As Summit Public Schools has defined them, Cognitive Skills are practices necessary for college and career readiness, synthesized from major nationally accepted standards and revised and vetted in partnership with SCALE. The cognitive skills rubric dimensions are broad enough that they have a...

This rubric assess students' communcation skills in three key areas: writing, oral presentation, and oral interaction. Individual sections can be used with specific performance tasks and/or in combination with disciplinary rubrics.

This common analytic rubric assesses problem solving and critical thinking skills. It can be used across disciplines in combination with another rubric or on its own.

This common analytic rubric assesses students' artistic expression, specifically an art product or products and an accompanying artist statement. The rubric can be used on its own or in concert with a content-related rubric.

This NGSS-aligned common analytic rubric assesses students' ability to design an experiment, develop and use models, and analyze and interpret data within the discpline of science. 

This NGSS-aligned common analytic rubric assesses students' ability to articulate a science-related issue, make a claim, identify evdience, justify a claim, and evaluate an argument within the discpline of science. 

This common analytic rubric assesses argumentative writing within the discipline of history, with a focus on document-based argumentation.

The rubric was developed for the New York City Department of Education Local Measures Project.

This common analytic rubric is for use with history/social studies tasks in the middle grades. It was developed for the New York City Department of Education Local Measures Project.

This common analytic rubric assess students' ability to effectively communicate knowledge and thinking through writing by organizing and structuring ideas and using discipline appropriate language and conventions.

This common analytic rubric evaluates students' ability to reason, problem-solve, develop sound arguments or decisions, and create new ideas by using appropriate sources and applying the knowledge and skills of a discipline.