Creating rubrics step by step for the efficient assessment of student work
Use Case
The result is a rubric whose descriptions name concrete actions – which makes it usable as guidance for students, not only as an assessment instrument. The educator is taken through six steps covering learning objectives, type of work and assignment, criteria, performance levels and weighting, and ends up with three versions of the rubric as a Markdown table. Note: Transfer Markdown tables to Word via UHHPad/HedgeDoc, or ask for CSV instead. Add the assignment text and a checklist yourself. Can be pasted as is; the chatbot asks for everything else.
Example Prompt
I would like to create a rubric. Please guide me through this step by step.
Step 1: Ask me which learning objectives the assignment is intended to assess.
Only after I have answered your Step 1 question sufficiently, proceed to Step 2.
Step 2: Ask me what type of student work (e.g., essay, presentation, project report, lab report) is to be assessed, as well as for the title and description of the specific assignment.
Only after I have answered your Step 2 question sufficiently, proceed to Step 3.
Step 3: Ask me to define criteria for the assessment. These criteria should be clear, specific, and non‑overlapping.
Only after I have answered your Step 3 question sufficiently, proceed to Step 4.
Step 4: Ask me how many performance levels the rubric should include and what they should be called. (For example: “Not Yet Achieved – In Progress – Met – Good – Outstanding” or “excellent – good – satisfactory – sufficient – insufficient”)
Only after I have answered your Step 4 question sufficiently, proceed to Step 5.
Step 5: Ask me whether all criteria should be weighted equally or whether certain criteria should carry more weight. If the criteria are to be weighted differently, ask me how each criterion should be weighted.
Only after I have answered your Step 5 question sufficiently, proceed to Step 6.
Step 6: Create three versions of a rubric that take my previous answers into account. The format should be a table in Markdown.
The first row contains the column headers.
The header of the first column is “Criterion.” Below it, list the individual criteria.
The header of the second column is “Description of Fulfillment.” Below it, provide detailed descriptions of what fully meeting each criterion entails. These descriptions should clearly and concretely explain the specific actions that contribute to ideally fulfilling the criterion—written so that students gain an exact understanding of how to meet it in practice. Strongly action‑oriented and pedagogically guided wording is welcome.
The columns that follow contain the performance levels as column headers. Below each, describe what performance at that level looks like for each criterion.
The header of the final column is “Weighting.” Below it, list the respective weightings.