This document, adapted from Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing It Right–Using It Well, describes a widely accepted, multi-step process for writing rubrics, beginning with instructions for initial drafting, revising, benchmarking, and refining. It can provide a general model for schools looking to write rubrics as part of their portfolio development process.

The Rhode Island Skills Commission and its network schools developed this document to assist task developers in generating standards-based rubrics for new tasks. This document represents one approach to this process; your school may choose to adopt it or may want to explore other approaches.

All of the appropriate tasks must be assessed with a rubric so this process will be helpful to schools as they develop their school-wide rubrics.

This metarubric is a tool schools can use to evaluate rubrics they are considering for use, either to judge portfolio entries or the portfolio as a whole. It contains criteria for judging the quality of the rubric and space for the user to record notes and comments.

This is one school's process for writing school-wide rubrics and can be a useful model for any school attempting to write/refine school-wide rubrics. This tool describes steps for writing rubrics and offers a template for rubrics with descriptions of indicators. Remember that this is only one way to write rubrics; you may modify this procedure or use a different procedure.