Description of Standards-Based Rubric Template

Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) are being used increasingly as a way to evaluate teachers’ contributions to student learning growth or outcomes. The attached rubric is designed to encourage educators creating SLOs to

1.  Focus on key content standards (there may be several for a single SLO)

2.  Tie performance levels for students directly to those standards

While there are many rubrics that may be useful for the purpose of evaluating student learning, few focus on explicit learning standards. The purpose of this rubric is to provide educators with a template for thinking about measuring standards-based performance.

The rubric can be used with any types of assessments that allow the teacher to determine student’s proficiency, including paper-and-pencil tests, multiple choice exams, individually administered assessments of skills, essays, reports, projects, portfolios, performance, products, etc.

The rubric is intended to work with any type of SLO systems. It is supplement tool and not intended to replace any state or local requirements.


Standards-Based Rubric Template

Standards Based Criteria / Doesn’t Meet Standard (1) / Partially Meets Standard (2) / Meets Standard (3) / Exceeds Standard (4)
Type or paste actual state or College and Career Ready Standard (Common Core) here / Describe characteristics of work that reveals a lack of proficiency on standard / Describe characteristics of work that approaches
proficiency on standard / Describe characteristics of work that demonstrates proficiency on standard / Describe characteristics of work that surpasses proficiency and reaches standards for the next unit, course, or grade level
Type or paste actual state or College and Career Ready Standard (Common Core) here / Describe characteristics of work that reveals a lack of proficiency on standard / Describe characteristics of work that approaches
proficiency on standard / Describe characteristics of work that demonstrates proficiency on standard / Describe characteristics of work that surpasses proficiency and reaches standards for the next unit, course, or grade level
Type or paste actual state or College and Career Ready Standard (Common Core) here / Describe characteristics of work that reveals a lack of proficiency on standard / Describe characteristics of work that approaches
proficiency on standard / Describe characteristics of work that demonstrates proficiency on standard / Describe characteristics of work that surpasses proficiency and reaches standards for the next unit, course, or grade level
Type or paste actual state or College and Career Ready Standard (Common Core) here / Describe characteristics of work that reveals a lack of proficiency on standard / Describe characteristics of work that approaches
proficiency on standard / Describe characteristics of work that demonstrates proficiency on standard / Describe characteristics of work that surpasses proficiency and reaches standards for the next unit, course, or grade level

Divide Student’s Score by Total Possible Points: ______/______= ______