Design and Deliver a Rubric

There is no objectively "correct" or "perfect" rubric. Rubrics are only as good as they are useful to you and your learners. As you use your rubric for the first time on a sample of work, you'll quickly determine how effective it is for the purposes it was intended. 

Rubrics constantly need checking, tweaking, and sometimes completely rebuilding so don't worry if the first one you build needs improvement. After you've finished marking a set of assignments or performances, reflect on the following questions:

• Did this rubric make my evaluative judgment more reliable, accurate, and efficient?
• Do I feel like the rubric fairly treated the range of performances?
• Is there evidence that the students used the rubric to either guide their work in advance of their submission and/or reflect on what their performance afterwards. 
• Is there a colleague I could discuss this with to get insight and feedback on how it went?
• Do all the users understand the descriptions and overall expectations the same way? Did you get any questions of clarification or push-back from your students about their score? 
• What changes can I make to improve it for next time?