Using rubrics helps clarify and communicate your expectations to your students and make for a simpler, faster, and fair grading process. In this introductory-level workshop, we’ll present different types of rubrics, review rubric design best practices, and guide you through beginning to create a rubric to use in a course. We will also discuss un-rubrics, which are designed to promote student self-assessment and meta-learning. This workshop may be counted toward the Pedagogy concentration of the Achievement in Pedagogy Badge, offered through the Graduate Student Teaching Initiative. For more information, visit the Achievement in Pedagogy Badge website or contact tahelp@pitt.edu.

As a result of completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Define a rubric and identify its components
• Recognize when it might be appropriate to use a rubric
• Describe types of rubrics, including un-rubrics
• Describe best practices in rubric creation
• Explain how rubrics and un-rubrics can be used as instructional tools
• Begin to create a rubric or un-rubric that demonstrates alignment to a learning objective, clear performance criteria, and distinct levels of performance