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Rubric Templates for Student Assessment

This site contains information about using rubrics for student assessment, and provides rubric templates (Excel workbooks) which you can download and use for assessment. These rubrics are available for anyone to download. You do not have to be a staff member at the University of Newcastle to use them. The only condition is that you don't remove the credit statements in the files.

Learn About Rubrics

What is a rubric?

Why use a rubric?

How can rubrics be used?

Checklist: Before you use your rubric

A rubric for rubrics

"Grading and Feedback", a paper by Janice Orrell (PDF 166 kb)

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How To Use These Rubric Templates

Overview of how to use this site.

How to download a rubric template.

How to setup a rubric template for your assignment (course co-ordinator).

How to use a rubric for assessment (lecturer).

How to upload your rubric for sharing with your peers.

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Download Rubric Templates

These rubrics are in the form of Microsoft Excel workbooks (spreadsheets). Choose the rubric which most closely matches the assignment you are going to assess. Note that the Generic Rubrics are recommended for use by experienced Excel users. All of the rubric templates which you can download below are 224K Zip files.

Note for Mac users: These rubrics are currently only supported on Windows PCs though they will work on Macs with certain limitations. If you are a Mac user and would like to use the rubrics, please send an email request for more information.

Please refer to the "How To" section above for help downloading, setting up and using the following files:

Generic Rubric with 2 ratings columns (Fail and Pass) — learn about this rubric then download

Generic Rubric with 5 ratings columns (F, P, CR, D, HD) — learn about this rubric then download

Essay Rubric — learn about this rubric then download

Research Report Rubric — learn about this rubric then download

Lab Report Rubric — learn about this rubric then download

Oral Presentation Rubric — learn about this rubric then download

Online Participation (Blackboard) Rubric — learn about this rubric then download

Note that these rubrics are available for anyone to download. You do not have to be a staff member at the University of Newcastle. The only condition is that you don't remove the credit statements in the files.

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The Rubric Bank (Customised Rubrics)

The Rubric Bank is a depository of customised rubrics available for download. They are the standard rubrics from above, which have been setup by lecturers to assess a particular assignment.

If you have setup any of the rubrics from this site to assess a specific assignment, you can submit it to the Rubric Bank to make it available for others to use.

 

Feedback

Your feedback, comments and questions regarding the rubrics and this website are very welcome. Please email your queries and comments to The Centre for Teaching and Learning.

 

Credits

This was a Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Service Partnership project for the Faculty of Education and Arts.

The project team consisted of Marj Kibby from the Faculty of Education and Arts and Terri Nowak (Multimedia Producer) and Denise Sweeney (Learning Designer) from CTL.

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