Rubrics Examples

A collation of rubric examples collected from PolyU academice staff and a variety of publicly available sources is provided to illustrate how different criteria and their respective levels of performance can be described for some common assessment tasks.

While these examples are not meant to be perfect, they are generic in nature and may constitute a good reference for similar assessment tasks within a discipline or across. Yet, assessors shall ensure the rubric is sufficient in presenting the criteria and standards for assessing the mastery of the subject matter.   

It is reminded that all rubrics shall be aligned with the Institutions Subject Level Grading Descriptors (ISLGD) as set out in the Handbook on Academic Regulations and Rules for Taught Programmes, Section C3, 7.1. The alignment with the ISLGD shall be focused on the standards of different levels of performance while the aspects within the descriptors maybe unique to particular subject matter or field of study requirement. The purpose of such alignment is to achieve quality assurance by ensuring consistency of standards across assessment items and subjects within and across programme.

There is a range of structures for marking rubrics. The following assessment rubrics are real examples. They are not perfect but real examples of assessment rubrics for your reference only.

More rubric examples are publicly available for reference at the university websites listed below. We would like to express our sincere gratitude and appreciation to these institutions for kindly sharing their resources on the web.