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Rubric

Meaning in education & teaching, with examples

/ˈruːbrɪk/nounCore term

In education & teaching, rubric means: A scoring guide that lists the criteria for a task and describes what work looks like at each level of quality, so that marking is clear and consistent.

In Turkish: dereceli puanlama anahtarı, rubrik

How it is used

Common for essays, projects and presentations. Teachers create, share and mark with a rubric, and students use it to check their own work. An analytic rubric scores each criterion separately; a holistic rubric gives one overall score.

Example sentences

  1. Share the rubric before students start writing so they know what a top score looks like.

  2. Our presentation rubric has four criteria: content, organization, delivery and visuals.

Common collocations

  • scoring rubric
  • analytic rubric
  • holistic rubric
  • share the rubric
  • mark against a rubric
  • assessmentThe process of collecting information about what students know and can do, for example through tests, tasks, questions or observation, and judging their progress.
  • success criteriaShort, clear statements that tell students what they need to do or include in their work to show they have met the learning objective.
  • peer assessmentAn activity in which students give feedback on or score each other's work, usually using clear criteria or a rubric provided by the teacher.
  • gradeA letter or number that shows how good a student's work or overall performance is; in American schools it also means a school year level, as in fifth grade.
  • markTo check students' work, show what is right or wrong and give it a score or grade.

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