Rubric

Assessment & Evaluation

A scoring guide that defines criteria and performance levels for an assessment.

Rubric is a scoring guide that defines criteria and performance levels for an assessment.

Related Terms
Evaluation
The overall judgment of student learning, performance or program quality against defined criteria.
Subjective Assessment
Open-ended responses such as essays and long answers that require a grader's judgment to evaluate.
Assessment
The process of measuring student learning through tests, projects or other evidence.
Academic Integrity
Honest and ethical conduct in scholarship, including avoiding plagiarism, cheating and fabrication.
Adaptive Testing
An exam that adjusts question difficulty in real time based on the test-taker's previous answers.