Undergraduate Affairs
General Education courses may include rubrics in a variety of ways such as papers, projects, class participation or assignments. Please see the resources below for some examples and reccomendations for developing rubrics from the Office of Institutional Assessment .
Please note that Writing courses are required to have a writing rubric. Please see the link below for an example of a writing rubric, instructors are not required to use this specific format, and may chose to develop a custom one for each General Education class.
The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) Project provides generalized rubrics for three assessment domains: intellectual and practical skills, personal and social responsibility, and integrative and applied learning. Within the domains, there are a total of 15 measurable outcomes and a generalized rubric for measuring these outcomes. These generalized rubrics are adaptable to individual institutions, and provide a list of criteria and achievement descriptions for each outcome.
| Domain | Measurable Outcome Rubric |
| Intellecutal and Practical Skills | Creative Thinking |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Information Literacy | |
| Inquiry and Analysis | |
| Oral communication | |
| Problem solving | |
| Quantitative Literacy | |
| Reading | |
| Teamwork | |
| Written Communication | |
| Personal and Social Responsibility | Civic Engagement |
| Ethical Reasoning | |
| Intercultural Knowledge | |
| Lifelong Learning | |
| Integrative and Applied Learning | Integrative and Applied Learning |