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15 Free Rubric Templates

By Kate Eby | August 30, 2018

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Often found in the education sector, a rubric is a tool for scoring performance based on specific criteria. However, businesses also use a rubric to measure things like employee performance and to evaluate the success of a project or product. Below you’ll find a range of free, customizable rubric templates for business and academic use. Save time and create an efficient grading process with easy-to-use, printable rubric templates.

Project Management Rubric

Evaluate project managers’ performance with this Excel rubric template. Enter the stages of a project or important objectives and milestones. Then use the rating scale to judge and provide a basic description of the management of those stages. This template can also be a useful self-evaluation tool for project managers to learn from and inform decision making on future projects.

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Business Plan Rubric

Break down your business plan into sections and use this rubric to evaluate the strength of each part. Is your mission statement merely sufficient, highly advanced, or somewhere inbetween? Is your market analysis thorough, or does it need to be fleshed out? Use this template to identify weak points and areas for improvement in your business plan.

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Job Interview Rubric Template

Use this rubric template to evaluate job interview candidates. Add your own criteria based on the applicant’s resume, references, skills, experience, and other important factors. The template includes a scoring scale with four levels as well as an additional column for criteria that the job candidate is missing or that are not applicable.

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Employee Performance Rubric

Create a rubric for ranking employee performance in selected areas, such as customer service, teamwork, leadership, time management, attendance, and other criteria. This template provides a simple way to create a comprehensive evaluation tool that you can use for multiple employees. This system of measurement helps support a fair evaluation process and provides an overview of an employee’s performance in an organized format.

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Product Rubric Template

Before investing in a new product, use this rubric template to determine how it aligns with your business objectives. You can rank and compare several products to get an idea of which one may offer the best return on investment. This rubric template is available as a Word or fillable PDF file, making it easy to print and use in a team meeting or brainstorming session .

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Marketing Plan Rubric

Evaluate all the elements of your marketing plan, from research and analysis to strategy and action items. Make sure your marketing plan can stand up to scrutiny and deliver results. Use this rubric template to add up points for each category and calculate a total score. The scoring system will indicate the overall strength of the marketing plan as well as which sections you need to refine or develop further.

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Group Project Rubric Template

This teamwork rubric allows teachers to assess how a group handled a shared project. Evaluate both process and content by including criteria such as supporting materials used, evidence of subject knowledge, organization, and collaboration. The template offers a simple layout, but you can add grading components and detailed criteria for meeting project objectives.

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Art Grading Rubric Template

Create a rubric for grading art projects that illustrates whether students were able to meet or exceed the expectations of an assignment. You can edit this template and use it with any grade level, student ability, or type of art project. Choose your grading criteria based on what you want to evaluate, such as technique, use and care of classroom tools, or creative vision.

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Science Experiment Rubric

Evaluate science experiments or lab reports with this scoring rubric template. Criteria may be based on the scientific process, how procedures were followed, how data and analysis were handled, and presentation skills (if relevant). Easily modify this rubric template to include additional rows or columns for a detailed look at a student’s performance.

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Poster Rubric Template

This Google Docs rubric template is designed for scoring an elementary school poster assignment. Include whatever elements you want to evaluate — such as graphics used, grammar, time management, or creativity — and add up the total score for each student’s work. Teachers can share the rubric with students to inform them of what to aim for with their poster projects.

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Research Project Rubric

Use this template to create a research project, written report, or other writing assignment rubric. Assess a student’s analytical and organizational skills, use of references, style and tone, and overall success of completing the assignment. The template includes room for additional comments about the student’s work.

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Oral Presentation Rubric Template

List all of the expectations for an effective oral presentation along with a point scale to create a detailed rubric. Areas to assess may include the thoroughness of the project, speaking and presentation skills, use of visual aids, and accuracy. Use this information to support the grading process and to show students areas they need to strengthen.

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Grading Rubric Template

This grading rubric template provides a general outline that you can use to evaluate any type of assignment, project, or work performance. You can also use the template for self-assessment or career planning to help identify skills or training to develop. Quickly save this Google Docs template to your Google Drive account and share it with others.

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Blank Rubric Template

Add your own information to this blank, editable template to create an evaluation tool that suits your particular needs. You can download the rubric as a Word or PDF file and start using it immediately. Use color or formatting changes to customize the template for use in a classroom, workplace, or other setting.

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Holistic Rubric Template

A holistic rubric provides a more generalized evaluation system by grouping together assignment requirements or performance expectations into a few levels for scoring. This method is different from analytic rubrics, which break down performance criteria into more detailed levels (which allows for more fine-tuned scoring and specific feedback for the student or employee). This holistic rubric template offers a basic outline for defining the characteristics that constitute each scoring level.

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What Is a Rubric Template?

A rubric is a tool for evaluating and scoring performance based on a set of criteria, and it provides an organized and consistent method for evaluation. Teachers commonly use rubrics to evaluate student performance at all levels of education, from elementary and high school to college. They can also be used in business settings to evaluate a project, employee, product, or strategic plan.

How to Make a Rubric Template

A variety of options exist for creating rubrics, including software, online tools, and downloadable templates. Templates provide a simple, reusable, and cost-effective solution for making a basic rubric. After downloading a rubric outline template, you can add your own criteria, text, and increase the number of rows or columns as needed.

All rubrics typically contain some version of the following elements:

• A description of the task to be evaluated
• A rating scale with at least three levels
• The criteria used to judge the task
• Descriptive language to illustrate how well the task (or performance, item, etc.) meets expectations

The rating scale on a rubric is often a combination of numbers and words (language often ranging from low to high, or poor to excellent quality). Using descriptive language allows for a thorough understanding of different elements of a task or performance, while a numeric scale allows you to quantitatively define an overall score. For example, level one may be worth one point and could be described as “beginner,” “low quality,” or “needs improvement;” level two could be worth two points and described as “fair” or “satisfactory.” The scale would continue up from there, ending with the highest level of exemplary performance.

Each of the criteria can be expanded upon with descriptive phrases to illustrate performance expectations. For example, if you were to evaluate an employee, and one of the criteria is communication skills, you would elaborate on each potential level of performance, such as in the following sample phrases:

• Level 1: Rarely shares ideas or exhibits teamwork during meetings or group projects.
• Level 2: Occasionally shares ideas or exhibits teamwork during meetings.
• Level 3: Often shares ideas or exhibits teamwork during meetings or group projects.
• Level 4: Frequently shares ideas or exhibits teamwork in meetings or group projects.

The above copy is just one example phrase with four different qualifiers, but several sentences may be required to demonstrate different aspects of communication skills and how well they are performed in various situations.

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Rubric Best Practices, Examples, and Templates

A rubric is a scoring tool that identifies the different criteria relevant to an assignment, assessment, or learning outcome and states the possible levels of achievement in a specific, clear, and objective way. Use rubrics to assess project-based student work including essays, group projects, creative endeavors, and oral presentations.

Rubrics can help instructors communicate expectations to students and assess student work fairly, consistently and efficiently. Rubrics can provide students with informative feedback on their strengths and weaknesses so that they can reflect on their performance and work on areas that need improvement.

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Step 1: Analyze the assignment

The first step in the rubric creation process is to analyze the assignment or assessment for which you are creating a rubric. To do this, consider the following questions:

• What is the purpose of the assignment and your feedback? What do you want students to demonstrate through the completion of this assignment (i.e. what are the learning objectives measured by it)? Is it a summative assessment, or will students use the feedback to create an improved product?
• Does the assignment break down into different or smaller tasks? Are these tasks equally important as the main assignment?
• What would an “excellent” assignment look like? An “acceptable” assignment? One that still needs major work?
• How detailed do you want the feedback you give students to be? Do you want/need to give them a grade?

Step 2: Decide what kind of rubric you will use

Types of rubrics: holistic, analytic/descriptive, single-point

Holistic Rubric. A holistic rubric includes all the criteria (such as clarity, organization, mechanics, etc.) to be considered together and included in a single evaluation. With a holistic rubric, the rater or grader assigns a single score based on an overall judgment of the student’s work, using descriptions of each performance level to assign the score.

Advantages of holistic rubrics:

• Can p lace an emphasis on what learners can demonstrate rather than what they cannot
• Save grader time by minimizing the number of evaluations to be made for each student
• Can be used consistently across raters, provided they have all been trained

Disadvantages of holistic rubrics:

• Provide less specific feedback than analytic/descriptive rubrics
• Can be difficult to choose a score when a student’s work is at varying levels across the criteria
• Any weighting of c riteria cannot be indicated in the rubric

Analytic/Descriptive Rubric . An analytic or descriptive rubric often takes the form of a table with the criteria listed in the left column and with levels of performance listed across the top row. Each cell contains a description of what the specified criterion looks like at a given level of performance. Each of the criteria is scored individually.

Advantages of analytic rubrics:

• Provide detailed feedback on areas of strength or weakness
• Each criterion can be weighted to reflect its relative importance

Disadvantages of analytic rubrics:

• More time-consuming to create and use than a holistic rubric
• May not be used consistently across raters unless the cells are well defined
• May result in giving less personalized feedback

Single-Point Rubric . A single-point rubric is breaks down the components of an assignment into different criteria, but instead of describing different levels of performance, only the “proficient” level is described. Feedback space is provided for instructors to give individualized comments to help students improve and/or show where they excelled beyond the proficiency descriptors.

Advantages of single-point rubrics:

• Easier to create than an analytic/descriptive rubric
• Perhaps more likely that students will read the descriptors
• Areas of concern and excellence are open-ended
• May removes a focus on the grade/points
• May increase student creativity in project-based assignments

Disadvantage of analytic rubrics: Requires more work for instructors writing feedback

Step 3 (Optional): Look for templates and examples.

You might Google, “Rubric for persuasive essay at the college level” and see if there are any publicly available examples to start from. Ask your colleagues if they have used a rubric for a similar assignment. Some examples are also available at the end of this article. These rubrics can be a great starting point for you, but consider steps 3, 4, and 5 below to ensure that the rubric matches your assignment description, learning objectives and expectations.

Step 4: Define the assignment criteria

Make a list of the knowledge and skills are you measuring with the assignment/assessment Refer to your stated learning objectives, the assignment instructions, past examples of student work, etc. for help.

  Helpful strategies for defining grading criteria:

• Collaborate with co-instructors, teaching assistants, and other colleagues
• Brainstorm and discuss with students
• Can they be observed and measured?
• Are they important and essential?
• Are they distinct from other criteria?
• Are they phrased in precise, unambiguous language?
• Revise the criteria as needed
• Consider whether some are more important than others, and how you will weight them.

Step 5: Design the rating scale

Most ratings scales include between 3 and 5 levels. Consider the following questions when designing your rating scale:

• Given what students are able to demonstrate in this assignment/assessment, what are the possible levels of achievement?
• How many levels would you like to include (more levels means more detailed descriptions)
• Will you use numbers and/or descriptive labels for each level of performance? (for example 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and/or Exceeds expectations, Accomplished, Proficient, Developing, Beginning, etc.)
• Don’t use too many columns, and recognize that some criteria can have more columns that others . The rubric needs to be comprehensible and organized. Pick the right amount of columns so that the criteria flow logically and naturally across levels.

Step 6: Write descriptions for each level of the rating scale

Artificial Intelligence tools like Chat GPT have proven to be useful tools for creating a rubric. You will want to engineer your prompt that you provide the AI assistant to ensure you get what you want. For example, you might provide the assignment description, the criteria you feel are important, and the number of levels of performance you want in your prompt. Use the results as a starting point, and adjust the descriptions as needed.

Building a rubric from scratch

For a single-point rubric , describe what would be considered “proficient,” i.e. B-level work, and provide that description. You might also include suggestions for students outside of the actual rubric about how they might surpass proficient-level work.

For analytic and holistic rubrics , c reate statements of expected performance at each level of the rubric.

• Consider what descriptor is appropriate for each criteria, e.g., presence vs absence, complete vs incomplete, many vs none, major vs minor, consistent vs inconsistent, always vs never. If you have an indicator described in one level, it will need to be described in each level.
• You might start with the top/exemplary level. What does it look like when a student has achieved excellence for each/every criterion? Then, look at the “bottom” level. What does it look like when a student has not achieved the learning goals in any way? Then, complete the in-between levels.
• For an analytic rubric , do this for each particular criterion of the rubric so that every cell in the table is filled. These descriptions help students understand your expectations and their performance in regard to those expectations.

Well-written descriptions:

• Describe observable and measurable behavior
• Use parallel language across the scale
• Indicate the degree to which the standards are met

Step 7: Create your rubric

Create your rubric in a table or spreadsheet in Word, Google Docs, Sheets, etc., and then transfer it by typing it into Moodle. You can also use online tools to create the rubric, but you will still have to type the criteria, indicators, levels, etc., into Moodle. Rubric creators: Rubistar , iRubric

Step 8: Pilot-test your rubric

Prior to implementing your rubric on a live course, obtain feedback from:

• Teacher assistants

Try out your new rubric on a sample of student work. After you pilot-test your rubric, analyze the results to consider its effectiveness and revise accordingly.

• Limit the rubric to a single page for reading and grading ease
• Use parallel language . Use similar language and syntax/wording from column to column. Make sure that the rubric can be easily read from left to right or vice versa.
• Use student-friendly language . Make sure the language is learning-level appropriate. If you use academic language or concepts, you will need to teach those concepts.
• Share and discuss the rubric with your students . Students should understand that the rubric is there to help them learn, reflect, and self-assess. If students use a rubric, they will understand the expectations and their relevance to learning.
• Consider scalability and reusability of rubrics. Create rubric templates that you can alter as needed for multiple assignments.
• Maximize the descriptiveness of your language. Avoid words like “good” and “excellent.” For example, instead of saying, “uses excellent sources,” you might describe what makes a resource excellent so that students will know. You might also consider reducing the reliance on quantity, such as a number of allowable misspelled words. Focus instead, for example, on how distracting any spelling errors are.

Example of an analytic rubric for a final paper

Example of a holistic rubric for a final paper, single-point rubric, more examples:.

• Single Point Rubric Template ( variation )
• Analytic Rubric Template make a copy to edit
• A Rubric for Rubrics
• Bank of Online Discussion Rubrics in different formats
• Mathematical Presentations Descriptive Rubric
• Math Proof Assessment Rubric
• Kansas State Sample Rubrics
• Design Single Point Rubric

Technology Tools: Rubrics in Moodle

• Moodle Docs: Rubrics
• Moodle Docs: Grading Guide (use for single-point rubrics)

Tools with rubrics (other than Moodle)

• Google Assignments
• Turnitin Assignments: Rubric or Grading Form

Other resources

• DePaul University (n.d.). Rubrics .
• Gonzalez, J. (2014). Know your terms: Holistic, Analytic, and Single-Point Rubrics . Cult of Pedagogy.
• Goodrich, H. (1996). Understanding rubrics . Teaching for Authentic Student Performance, 54 (4), 14-17. Retrieved from   
• Miller, A. (2012). Tame the beast: tips for designing and using rubrics.
• Ragupathi, K., Lee, A. (2020). Beyond Fairness and Consistency in Grading: The Role of Rubrics in Higher Education. In: Sanger, C., Gleason, N. (eds) Diversity and Inclusion in Global Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.

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10 Free Rubric Templates for Better Assessment

Praburam Srinivasan

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February 13, 2024

Objective assessment, whether it’s for students, employees, or projects, is impossible without at least some standardization. But it’s difficult to know where to start, which is where the right rubric template comes in.

A rubric template lets you assess a student’s work using a rating scale that’s appropriate for a specific student assignment or test question. With the right template, you could even expand your performance criteria to include more descriptive language and specific feedback.

The best free rubric template for you depends, of course, on your exact needs. For example, grading rubric templates will have different criteria from a project rubric designed for performance evaluations.

No single rubric can include all the necessary criteria to cover all of these nuances. But the best blank rubric template offers the flexibility and customization to account for them.

What makes a good rubric template?

1. clickup gradebook template, 2. clickup project assessment template, 3. clickup project assessment report template, 4. clickup performance review template, 5. clickup performance report template, 6. clickup evaluation form, 7. clickup evaluation report template, 8. pdf oral presentation rubric by brighthubeducation, 9. word analytic rubric by the university of nebraska, 10. word debate rubric by educationworld.

What is a Rubric Template?

A rubric template is a standardized form that helps you evaluate and grade a worker, project, or student. It puts standard criteria in place to create a score that applies to everyone you grade while still being flexible enough to account for more qualitative evaluation.

Most rubric templates include a few core components:

• An overview section that outlines project or assignment details, learning goals, and overall performance expectations
• Line items for each criterion on which the teacher will grade the student, with specific scores for each part of the performance
• Additional rows that allow for more general comments on each line item
• A summary of overall student performance based on all relevant information in the grading rubric
• A section for teachers or evaluators to provide feedback and outline the next steps for performance improvement

The result of these individual aspects is a holistic rubric template that the evaluator can fill in each time a student completes the assignment, saving them time.

Because they must be flexible, editable rubric templates tend to differ significantly in both format and setup. Naturally, a template for evaluating employee performance levels looks different from one that focuses on grading criteria for individual students or group projects.

With that said, the best rubric templates do share a few important characteristics:

• User-friendliness : The most helpful templates make creating rubrics easier each time you do it
• Easy export options : For example, it should be easy to export your grading rubric into Google Docs or your LMS
• Customization : The more easily you can customize your blank rubric template to match your rating scale and other criteria, the better
• Simplicity : Your goal is to minimize the time-consuming processes of your grading rubrics, so a simple template (maybe even condensed to a single page) is best
• Integration into a larger system : Chances are your blank rubric template is just one of many online tools you use to evaluate students. The more it can integrate with those other tools, such as your performance review software , the better

10 Free Rubric Templates

If you want to build a truly holistic rubric for your students and performance evaluations, these blank rubric templates can help.

The ClickUp Gradebook Template is a straightforward way to keep track of all student activity in your classroom over a semester. It consists of four main views:

• Start Here : An introduction to the rubric template that outlines exactly how you can score your students
• Rubric Table : Sections organized by month and columns including the student’s name, quiz average, homework average, long test average, participation grade, and a comment section to write descriptions of their work
• Grading List : To enter individual student grades for individual assignments
• Participation Level: To rank students according to how well they’ve participated in your classes and teaching efforts

The best part about this rubric template is its balance between complexity and efficiency. Once you define an assignment and enter grades for your students, it automatically uses backend calculations to complete the right columns for the overview tab. This saves you time while keeping your feedback constructive.

If you’re looking to evaluate the success of a project after its completion, ClickUp’s Project Assessment Template is a great place to start. It allows you to evaluate your project’s performance against your original project management goals , identify areas for improvement, and even gather feedback from other stakeholders on what to do better next time.

The best part: It’s all available in a simple narrative within ClickUp Docs, allowing any reader to quickly and easily jump to the section most relevant to them.

For example, some stakeholders may need to read the entire evaluation. But others may only want to see the holistic rubric highlighting your overview’s quantitative part. With the Project Assessment template, you can satisfy both needs, helping you assess your projects while learning important lessons for the future.

Designed as a more comprehensive evaluation report, the ClickUp Project Assessment Report Template is especially valuable for assessing your student or employee at the end of a specific milestone, such as a semester or fiscal year.

As a result, this rubric template is largely narrative, focusing more on the circumstances and outcomes of individual grades, as opposed to more analytically inclined templates. But that doesn’t make it any less valuable, particularly when evaluating classroom performance against original expectations.

At the beginning of each evaluation, you can create a report outlining the details of the assignments or projects in question. From there, the template provides an opportunity to share your thoughts in a quick and organized manner, keeping descriptions short and to the point. You can even include details such as how your students respond to your teaching style.

Writing a performance evaluation can be difficult, especially when you don’t have a pre-set scale or criteria to measure everyone against. That’s what makes the ClickUp Performance Review Template such a valuable addition to this list.

This rubric template helps you track and assess employee performance. But you can use it as a rubric to evaluate your students as well, thanks to an easy layout and customizable criteria that make it a perfect fit for teachers.

At its core, like most performance review templates , it starts with a single document with a few pre-defined categories, such as employee details, discussion points, feedback, and key priorities. But where this template really shines is the Performance Management sheet with criteria, such as skills and job understanding, to help both you and your employee score their performance.

The result, especially when you use the same template for multiple employees or students, is a straightforward analytic rubric that can become the foundation of any performance review.

ClickUp’s Performance Report Template judges projects against goals and expectations using a quantitative rubric to create an overview of a program’s or assignment’s performance.

The core of this template is a visual overview of a project’s or program’s performance against defined goals. But it can go far beyond that, thanks to functionality such as tagging, comments, and even file notifications that allow you to add further context for a more comprehensive assessment.

In addition, this template benefits from its integration with larger ClickUp functionality. Your takeaways can go straight into a ClickUp workflow with tasks, Lists, and calendars that take action according to the evaluated performance. As a result, it’s the perfect foundation for any performance improvement plan template you’re also looking to implement.

Especially in more standardized processes, creating a rubric template as a form with pre-set criteria to fill in can be helpful. That’s exactly what the ClickUp Evaluation Form Template provides, allowing for an objective evaluation while minimizing the effort you need to complete each form.

The forms in the field focus on simplicity, including quantitative metrics, such as the number of completed tasks, alongside open-ended fields for evaluating skills and accomplishments. Ultimately, it all combines to help you judge all your employees (or students) on objective criteria and in an equitable fashion, taking any subjective judgments or biases out of the equation.

You can use this rubric template for various needs, such as an individual assignment or an annual employee evaluation. Especially when you connect its contents to your KPIs or grading metrics , it can become a helpful teaching tool that saves time and improves efficiencies.

ClickUp’s Evaluation Report Template works so well because of its categorization options. It’s not just a blank rubric template without context; it offers an easy way for teachers and supervisors to evaluate their team members or students.

The existing sections of this rubric template include:

• An evaluation summary that outlines the name of the person you’re evaluating as well as their role, department, and evaluation period. For students, this can easily change to student name, class, and semester
• A quick-selection option of the type of evaluation, such as promotion, annual appraisal, or suspension
• The actual performance evaluation, including a grading rubric that includes both individual sections and an overall rating or grade
• Additional space for supervisors or teachers to include comments on new skills and anything else that doesn’t fit into the rubric

Because this rubric template works so well for regular evaluations, it’s also a great option to hook into your KPI software . You can track individual performances back to your program or project rubric for a clear overview.

Especially for teachers looking to evaluate their students on a presentation assignment, the PDF Oral Presentation Rubric by BrightHubEducation can be immensely helpful. It’s a simple, one-page template that allows the teacher to evaluate each student on content, eye contact, volume and clarity, flow, and visual aid.

Of course, this grading rubric template is customizable beyond those pre-set categories, allowing teachers to edit the categories and rating scale to their liking. But even in its pre-set stage, it’s one of the most holistic rubrics you can find specifically for online oral presentations.

An analytic rubric is a type of rubric template that helps students quantify their work and ultimately improve their learning in the process. The Word Analytic Rubric by the University of Nebraska is a great place for any teacher to begin that process, allowing them to build a task or project rubric quickly their students can use to evaluate their work.

This is a blank rubric template with a focus on individual customization. Teachers can also benefit from a learning activity where students create their blank rubric template, allowing for more immersive and comprehensive learning.

Debates are a vital part of modern life, encompassing political debates shaping presidential elections and courtroom debates helping to persuade audiences and juries about justice. The Word Debate Rubric by EducationWorld can help any law school or political science student create their rubric template to learn more about the criteria that help any debate participant win their argument.

Unlike most blank rubric templates, this is not necessarily a teaching tool. Instead, it’s a self-learning tool for students and anyone interested in understanding the nuances of rhetoric. For that purpose, though, it can become a vital tool to help understand how some of the world’s noblest professions make their arguments.

Improve Your Grading and Evaluation With ClickUp’s Rubric Templates and ClickUp for Education

If you’re looking for the right grading rubric template to optimize your work and evaluations, you’ve come to the right place. ClickUp’s extensive template library is a great place to start, whether you’re looking for a simple blank rubric template or more comprehensive options with different criteria.

The templates will help your students understand how you organize your feedback. Whether you provide qualitative feedback on skills like communication or more quantitative assessments, they’ll always know where they stand and where they can make relevant improvements.

Even better: The templates integrate with ClickUp for Education , a comprehensive project management software that goes far beyond a simple grading rubric. Turn performance reviews into tasks and workflows, making the learning process more efficient and successful.

ClickUp is the perfect start not just for your blank rubric template but for creating a comprehensive performance evaluation system designed to meet and exceed your (and your students’) expectations. In the process, you’ll become more consistent in your efforts to score performance and take the relevant next steps.

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15 Helpful Scoring Rubric Examples for All Grades and Subjects

In the end, they actually make grading easier.

When it comes to student assessment and evaluation, there are a lot of methods to consider. In some cases, testing is the best way to assess a student’s knowledge, and the answers are either right or wrong. But often, assessing a student’s performance is much less clear-cut. In these situations, a scoring rubric is often the way to go, especially if you’re using standards-based grading . Here’s what you need to know about this useful tool, along with lots of rubric examples to get you started.

What is a scoring rubric?

In the United States, a rubric is a guide that lays out the performance expectations for an assignment. It helps students understand what’s required of them, and guides teachers through the evaluation process. (Note that in other countries, the term “rubric” may instead refer to the set of instructions at the beginning of an exam. To avoid confusion, some people use the term “scoring rubric” instead.)

A rubric generally has three parts:

• Performance criteria: These are the various aspects on which the assignment will be evaluated. They should align with the desired learning outcomes for the assignment.
• Rating scale: This could be a number system (often 1 to 4) or words like “exceeds expectations, meets expectations, below expectations,” etc.
• Indicators: These describe the qualities needed to earn a specific rating for each of the performance criteria. The level of detail may vary depending on the assignment and the purpose of the rubric itself.

Rubrics take more time to develop up front, but they help ensure more consistent assessment, especially when the skills being assessed are more subjective. A well-developed rubric can actually save teachers a lot of time when it comes to grading. What’s more, sharing your scoring rubric with students in advance often helps improve performance . This way, students have a clear picture of what’s expected of them and what they need to do to achieve a specific grade or performance rating.

Learn more about why and how to use a rubric here.

Types of Rubric

There are three basic rubric categories, each with its own purpose.

Holistic Rubric

Source: Cambrian College

This type of rubric combines all the scoring criteria in a single scale. They’re quick to create and use, but they have drawbacks. If a student’s work spans different levels, it can be difficult to decide which score to assign. They also make it harder to provide feedback on specific aspects.

Traditional letter grades are a type of holistic rubric. So are the popular “hamburger rubric” and “ cupcake rubric ” examples. Learn more about holistic rubrics here.

Analytic Rubric

Source: University of Nebraska

Analytic rubrics are much more complex and generally take a great deal more time up front to design. They include specific details of the expected learning outcomes, and descriptions of what criteria are required to meet various performance ratings in each. Each rating is assigned a point value, and the total number of points earned determines the overall grade for the assignment.

Though they’re more time-intensive to create, analytic rubrics actually save time while grading. Teachers can simply circle or highlight any relevant phrases in each rating, and add a comment or two if needed. They also help ensure consistency in grading, and make it much easier for students to understand what’s expected of them.

Learn more about analytic rubrics here.

Developmental Rubric

Source: Deb’s Data Digest

A developmental rubric is a type of analytic rubric, but it’s used to assess progress along the way rather than determining a final score on an assignment. The details in these rubrics help students understand their achievements, as well as highlight the specific skills they still need to improve.

Developmental rubrics are essentially a subset of analytic rubrics. They leave off the point values, though, and focus instead on giving feedback using the criteria and indicators of performance.

Learn how to use developmental rubrics here.

Ready to create your own rubrics? Find general tips on designing rubrics here. Then, check out these examples across all grades and subjects to inspire you.

Elementary School Rubric Examples

These elementary school rubric examples come from real teachers who use them with their students. Adapt them to fit your needs and grade level.

Reading Fluency Rubric

You can use this one as an analytic rubric by counting up points to earn a final score, or just to provide developmental feedback. There’s a second rubric page available specifically to assess prosody (reading with expression).

Learn more: Teacher Thrive

Reading Comprehension Rubric

The nice thing about this rubric is that you can use it at any grade level, for any text. If you like this style, you can get a reading fluency rubric here too.

Learn more: Pawprints Resource Center

Written Response Rubric

Rubrics aren’t just for huge projects. They can also help kids work on very specific skills, like this one for improving written responses on assessments.

Learn more: Dianna Radcliffe: Teaching Upper Elementary and More

Interactive Notebook Rubric

If you use interactive notebooks as a learning tool , this rubric can help kids stay on track and meet your expectations.

Learn more: Classroom Nook

Project Rubric

Use this simple rubric as it is, or tweak it to include more specific indicators for the project you have in mind.

Learn more: Tales of a Title One Teacher

Behavior Rubric

Developmental rubrics are perfect for assessing behavior and helping students identify opportunities for improvement. Send these home regularly to keep parents in the loop.

Learn more: Teachers.net Gazette

Middle School Rubric Examples

In middle school, use rubrics to offer detailed feedback on projects, presentations, and more. Be sure to share them with students in advance, and encourage them to use them as they work so they’ll know if they’re meeting expectations.

Argumentative Writing Rubric

Argumentative writing is a part of language arts, social studies, science, and more. That makes this rubric especially useful.

Learn more: Dr. Caitlyn Tucker

Role-Play Rubric

Role-plays can be really useful when teaching social and critical thinking skills, but it’s hard to assess them. Try a rubric like this one to evaluate and provide useful feedback.

Learn more: A Question of Influence

Art Project Rubric

Art is one of those subjects where grading can feel very subjective. Bring some objectivity to the process with a rubric like this.

Source: Art Ed Guru

Diorama Project Rubric

You can use diorama projects in almost any subject, and they’re a great chance to encourage creativity. Simplify the grading process and help kids know how to make their projects shine with this scoring rubric.

Learn more: Historyourstory.com

Oral Presentation Rubric

Rubrics are terrific for grading presentations, since you can include a variety of skills and other criteria. Consider letting students use a rubric like this to offer peer feedback too.

Learn more: Bright Hub Education

High School Rubric Examples

In high school, it’s important to include your grading rubrics when you give assignments like presentations, research projects, or essays. Kids who go on to college will definitely encounter rubrics, so helping them become familiar with them now will help in the future.

Presentation Rubric

Analyze a student’s presentation both for content and communication skills with a rubric like this one. If needed, create a separate one for content knowledge with even more criteria and indicators.

Learn more: Michael A. Pena Jr.

Debate Rubric

Debate is a valuable learning tool that encourages critical thinking and oral communication skills. This rubric can help you assess those skills objectively.

Learn more: Education World

Project-Based Learning Rubric

Implementing project-based learning can be time-intensive, but the payoffs are worth it. Try this rubric to make student expectations clear and end-of-project assessment easier.

Learn more: Free Technology for Teachers

100-Point Essay Rubric

Need an easy way to convert a scoring rubric to a letter grade? This example for essay writing earns students a final score out of 100 points.

Learn more: Learn for Your Life

Drama Performance Rubric

If you’re unsure how to grade a student’s participation and performance in drama class, consider this example. It offers lots of objective criteria and indicators to evaluate.

Learn more: Chase March

How do you use rubrics in your classroom? Come share your thoughts and exchange ideas in the WeAreTeachers HELPLINE group on Facebook .

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U.S. Department of Energy Announces $28 Million to Decarbonize Domestic Iron and Steel Production

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In support of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $28 million in funding to 13 projects across 9 states to advance zero-process-emission ironmaking and ultra-low life cycle emissions steelmaking. The transformative technologies funded through this program would be the first to meet both emissions and cost parity goals, meaning the new, transformative concepts must be cost competitive with existing technologies. The teams announced today—managed by DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under the Revolutionizing Ore to Steel to Impact Emissions (ROSIE) program —support the Biden-Harris Administration’s goals to reduce harmful, climate-change fueling emissions and imports of iron and steel products.   “Iron and steel production are among the most difficult industrial sectors to decarbonize, which is why ARPA-E is laser focused on accelerating game-changing technological breakthroughs to lower emissions from these critical sectors,” said ARPA-E Director Evelyn N. Wang. “Today’s announcement will help the nation achieve President Biden’s ambitious clean energy and net-zero goals while also reinforcing America’s global leadership in clean manufacturing for generations to come.” The iron and steel industry accounts for approximately 7% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and 11% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. By 2050, global iron and steel demand is projected to rise as much as 40%. This projected growth underscores the importance of lowering emissions from this industry. Current blast furnace technologies—responsible for approximately 70% of global iron and steel GHG emissions—require carbon for heat, chemistry, and structure, making the process particularly difficult to decarbonize. The ROSIE projects selected today seek to revolutionize not just the iron or steelmaking process, but the entire supply chain from ore to final steel production. The following teams will work to develop and demonstrate novel technologies that produce iron-based products from iron-containing ores and alternative feedstocks without process emissions in the ironmaking step:

• Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, IL) will further develop a microwave-powered hydrogen plasma rotary kiln process for reducing iron ore that would eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from the ironmaking process. Argonne’s method has the potential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions arising from ironmaking by 35% compared to the blast furnace process when using today’s grid and by 88% when using a future low-carbon grid, while also reducing the cost of making hot rolled steel. (Award amount: $3,066,221)
• Blue Origin (Los Angeles, CA) will use an “Ouroboros” system that produces high-purity ferro-silicate pig iron from low-quality iron ores using molten oxide electrolysis (MOE) with zero direct process greenhouse gas emissions. Blue Origin will leverage and transfer the MOE expertise developed for lunar applications toward novel, terrestrial iron making approaches. The approach could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the terrestrial ironmaking industry and clean up mine tailing storage facilities across the country. (Award amount: $1,109,422)
• Electra (Boulder, CO) will develop a process for producing iron at the temperature of a cup of coffee using unconventional feedstocks and a process involving two electrochemical cell stacks. If successful, the project will produce iron for use in green steel with 80% less greenhouse gas emissions at half the cost of existing traditional fuel-based processes. (Award amount: $2,874,596)
• Form Energy (Somerville, MA) will leverage its patent-pending breakthrough to directly produce iron powders from alkaline iron ore slurries in a first-of-a-kind powder-to-powder process. Using domestically available iron ore feedstocks, the process has the potential to produce greenhouse gas emission-free iron at cost parity with today’s carbon-intensive ironmaking methods. (Award amount: $1,000,000)
• Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) will work on a method to produce net-shaped engineered lattice structures and cellular structures of alloy steels by solid-state direct reduction of extruded structures. Several potential markets for the use of structural steels—where lightweighting and stiffness are most highly valued—include aerospace, military, and civilian aircraft, as well as automotive structural components. (Award amount: $2,843,274)
• Limelight Steel (Oakland, CA) will convert iron ore into iron metal using a laser furnace without emitting carbon dioxide at lower cost than a blast furnace. The process leverages semiconductor laser diodes, which enable new temperature and pressure ranges to reduce high- and low-grade iron ore fines into molten iron metal. Limelight estimates that their technology would reduce energy consumption of steelmaking by 46% and emissions by 81%. (Award amount: $2,910,346)
• Pennsylvania State University (State College, PA)  will develop an efficient, productive, and reliable electrochemical process for the economical reduction of iron ore at temperatures below 600°C without direct greenhouse gas emissions. The approach of a metallic anode protected by a solid metal oxide would overcome many of the challenges of anodic degradation that have hindered historical progress in this area. A host of electrolytes will be investigated while processing mixed Fe(II) and Fe(III) ores and simultaneously addressing ore impurities.  (Award amount: $760,000)
• Phoenix Tailings (Woburn, MA) will utilize an ore-to-iron production process using the arc generated from an air-gapped electrode to electrolyze the molten oxide electrolyte powered by clean electricity. Molten oxide electrolysis is a promising alternative to conventional approaches, but until now has required anode materials that are either consumable or prohibitively expensive. (Award amount: $1,000,000)
• Tufts University (Medford, MA) will develop a method to directly reduce iron ore concentrates with ammonia, eliminating all direct process emissions from the ironmaking step, as well as emissions that result from baking iron ore with clay to make hard pellets. By using low-grade ores, bypassing the pellet-hardening step, and lowering melting costs, this new approach to ammonia-based reduction would reduce the cost of domestic steel while decreasing total steel emissions by greater than 60%. (Award amount: $2,924,514)
• University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)  will work on a fully electrified microwave hydrogen plasma process to replace blast furnace technology. The technology will use blast furnace and direct reduction grade iron ore concentrates, eliminating the emissions associated with the pelletization, sintering, and coke-making steps in the conventional blast furnace process.  (Award amount: $2,820,071)
• University of Nevada (Las Vegas, NV) will develop technology to use electrowinning to convert pulverized iron ore into pure iron that is deposited on a cathode. The goal is to create a laboratory-scale prototype of an impeller-accelerated reactor that maintains the production of one kilogram per hour of over 95% pure iron for 100 hours. (Award amount: $2,102,353)
• University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT)  will advance a hydrogen-reduction melt-less steelmaking technology. The proposed process has the potential to drastically reduce energy consumption by eliminating several high-energy steps in traditional iron and steelmaking and is conducted at substantially lower temperatures than conventional methods. This approach is projected to decrease energy use by at least 50% in the production of steel mill products and up to 90% in creating near-net-shape steel components. (Award amount: $3,479,082)
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA)  will focus on manufacturing technologies for low carbon electrolyzed iron powder to be used in iron-silicon electrical steel. The work could revolutionize iron production by replacing the traditional carbothermic process while significantly reducing energy usage, greenhouse gas emissions, and cost. (Award amount: $1,241,919)

Access project descriptions for the teams announced today on the  ARPA-E website . If successful, novel ironmaking technologies meeting the metrics set forth by ROSIE will enable a reduction of U.S. emissions by over 65 million metric tonnes CO2 emitted annually (approximately 1% of U.S. emissions) and global emissions by over 2.9 gigatonnes annually (5.5% of global emissions).

ARPA-E advances high-potential, high-impact clean energy technologies across a wide range of technical areas that are strategic to America's energy security. Learn more about these efforts and ARPA-E's commitment to ensuring the United States continues to lead the world in developing and deploying advanced clean energy technologies. 

Selection for award negotiations is not a commitment by DOE to issue an award or provide funding. Before funding is issued, DOE and the applicants will undergo a negotiation process, and DOE may cancel negotiations and rescind the selection for any reason during that time.

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Apple Cut at Least 600 Workers When Car, Screen Projects Stopped

Apple Inc. laid off more than 600 employees in California as part of the decisions to end its car and smartwatch display projects, according to filings with the California Employment Development Department.

The Cupertino, California-based company filed eight separate reports to the state to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN program. Companies must file a report to the state agency for each California address that includes employees affected by a layoff. At least 87 of the people worked at an address corresponding to a secret Apple facility for its next-generation screen development, while the others were located at buildings related to the car project.