Scoring rubrics guide assessment in a reliable, fair and valid manner by measuring the quality of work or performance against a set of publicly-shared criteria. The combination of fair assessment and comments make the rubric a formative assessment tool that provides both student and teacher with insight in how to proceed with subsequent learning/teaching.

In LAT, rubrics are commonly used as an evaluation method for DRF work and are created via the Rubric Wizard tool.

This guide provides step by step instructions for creating a new blank rubric in the LAT Rubric Wizard.

Whether you have already created a rubric in a document or are planning to create a new one, the rubric import feature allows you use this document to easily and quickly create a new rubric within the system. By following the rubric guidelines that have been established in LAT, you can successfully create a new rubric with just a few clicks.

Rubric guidelines:

• Titles may not exceed 100 characters.
• May contain up to 8 columns
• May contain up to 225 rows
• Level headings may contain up to 50 characters each
• Level descriptors may contain up to 5000 characters
• Criteria cells may contain up to 2000 characters
• Document must be saved with one of the following file extensions: .doc, .docx, .rtf.

This guide provides step by step instruction for importing a rubric from a document.