Mailing AddressUniversity of Virginia
Office of Institutional Assessment and Studies
P.O. Box 400727
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4727
Physical Address445 Rugby Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903
The 2014 SERU (Student Experience in the Research University) Survey results are here.
**Our assessment reporting templates can be found here.**
iRubric is now available at UVa. iRubric is a comprehensive tool for developing, sharing and using rubrics for grading and assessment.
Visit our List of Improvements page to see how departments around the University have used results from their assessments.
Curious about our Learning Grants program? Take a look at the 2012-2013 winners.
How are assessment reports evaluated? See the rubric here.
Try your hand at developing a rubric with the help of our rubrics page.
Attend a work session or review materials from past work sessions.
Rubrics can be a powerful educational tool for sharing expectations with students and then subsequently for grading students' work. When rubrics (or portions of rubrics) are designed around student learning outcomes, the completed rubrics can be used to assess how well students have acquired the skills and knowledge described in the learning outcomes. Click on the image below to see how grades and assessment can be combined.
Developing a Rubric
Using a Rubric
By using a rubric to evaluate complex student work, faculty can produce both grades and assessment data simultaneously.
iRubric is a comprehensive tool for developing, sharing, and using rubrics for grading and assessment. It is available through Collab Gradebook. More on UVa and iRubric can be found here.
You may find it useful to begin with a pre-existing rubric and customize it to suit your purposes. The following links provide sample rubrics for a variety of learning outcomes.
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has developed and made available 15 rubrics through the VALUE Project that address essential learning outcomes. Individuals at AAC&U member institutions are welcome to reproduce the VALUE rubrics for use in the classroom and in intra-institutional publications. Please be sure to credit AAC&U using the following permission statement: "Reprinted [or Excerpted] with permission from [Title]. Copyright [Year] by the Association of American Colleges and Universities." A permission fee will be assessed for requests to reprint the rubrics in course packets or in publications intended for sale. Please see AAC&U’s permission policies about how to request permission.
Intellectual and Practical Skills
Personal and Social Responsibility
Integrative and Applied Learning
The VALUE rubrics were developed by teams of faculty experts representing colleges and universities across the United States through a process that examined many existing campus rubrics and related documents for each learning outcome and incorporated additional feedback from faculty. The rubrics articulate fundamental criteria for each learning outcome, with performance descriptors demonstrating progressively more sophisticated levels of attainment. The rubrics are intended for institutional-level use in evaluating and discussing student learning, not for grading. The core expectations articulated in all 15 of the VALUE rubrics can and should be translated into the language of individual campuses, disciplines, and even courses. The utility of the VALUE rubrics is to position learning at all undergraduate levels within a basic framework of expectations such that evidence of learning can be shared nationally through a common dialog and understanding of student success.
Featured UVA Rubrics
The following seven rubrics were created by Emily Scida, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia. They focus on five areas of student learning: composition (three levels: 1000, 2000 and 3000); cross-cultural composition; oral exam; presentation; and class participation.
Composition - 1000 Level (University of Virginia)
The Undergraduate Research Assessment Committee developed this rubric for assessing student research projects or papers.
Undergraduate Research (University of Virginia)
Action Project (Miami University)
Arts and Humanities
Book Review (Miami University)
SEAS Graduate Program Assessment Site (University of Virginia)
Liberal Studies Seminar (BIS - University of Virginia, work in progress)
Science Lab (National Health Lab)
Critical Thinking - Anthropology (Miami University)
The below resources may be useful in developing and using a rubric.