Determine what the rubric is going to measure and the total points the assignment is going to be worth. This is the creation of the assignment and how many points it will be worth in the scope of the whole class. For this example, the rubric will measure how well the student can write an informational essay.
Decide the objectives that you are going to evaluate for the rubric. An objective is something specific that the grader is looking for. It can be a performance, behavior or quality. In the informational essay assignment, you would measure the ideas, the sentence variation, word choice and grammar.
Assign a range of evaluation to your objectives. The range determines the degree to which the student meet the objectives. The range can be absolute degrees, such as "present" or "not present," or it could be in gradient degrees, "poor," "fair" and "good." Assign point values to each degree of the range. For the informational essay, you would assign arrange of 1 through 5 for each objective, with 1 being poor and 5 being strong.
Define criteria to achieve each degree of range within the objective. You need to specify exactly what would earn each degree. This ensures that children will understand exactly what they need to do to complete the assignment successfully. For the informational essay example, in grammar, you would specify that you were looking for no grammar or spelling mistakes. For example, the 5 would require no mistakes, 4 would require only 1 or 2, 3 would require 3 or 4, 2 would require 5 or 6, and 1 would be a paper with 7 or more mistakes. You would assign similar criteria to the other objectives and what it would take to achieve each score in the range.