52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 11: Using rubrics

The term "rubric" is often used in education to refer to a systematic way of setting out the expectations for students in terms of what would constitute poor, good and excellent performance.

In recent years rubrics have begun to be used explicitly in evaluation to address the challenge of systematically and transparently synthesising diverse evidence into an overall evaluative judgement. Sometimes they are called rubrics, and sometimes Global Assessment Scales, as they provide an overall rating of performance, based on detailed descriptions on a scale.