Measure Outcomes

Generating Rubrics

This video offers a demonstration of generating rubrics using AI. Rubrics are a great assessment tool that can help make explicit an assignment’s goals and expectations, while also helping students understand the key elements of an assignment. To be most effective and beneficial to you and your students in the feedback and grading process, rubrics should align with the assessment learning objectives of a course or assignment. In order to generate a rubric that will be useful to your course context, it is important to specify the course or assignment learning objectives and share as much information about the assignment as possible. It’s also important to provide as much detail about the structure and parameters of the rubric as possible. The sample prompt used in the video is provided below, and can be adapted for each course context.

Prompt: Using the course learning outcomes and assignment description shared previously, create a rubric for a first-year writing course at a university. The rubric should be in table form with the first column being the list of criteria and the first row being a sequence of assessment values reading “Excellent”, “Good,” “Developing”, and “Not Present”. Write a one-sentence description of the quality of each criterion that will be given for that assessment value category. Also note the predicted level of quality that an AI can reach for each criterion.”