1. What is a Community Rubric?

2. A community rubric Contains specified criteria that can be adapted based on teaching styles, expertise, disciplinary conventions, and course level.

3. A community rubric Can be used to assess the degree to which a student has achieved one of the Campus-wide Outcomes.

4. A community rubric Is a public document and is the centerpiece for conversations about a given ability with students, other faculty, administrators, and the community.

5. A community rubric Contains the primary indicators of performance criteria for each Campus-wide Outcome, not the content of the class in which it is being taught and assessed.

6. A community rubric Contains criteria general enough that they can be adapted to Transfer, Ready to Work, Basic Skills, Lifelong Learning contexts, etc.

7. A community rubric A community rubric focuses on dimensions of key behavior, examples of behaviors, and scales that rank the performance of the behavior.

8. What A Community Rubric Isn’t A standardized way to assess Campus-wide Outcomes in all courses. It is meant to be a tool for instructors to adapt to use in their individual courses or program. Something that all instructors would be mandated to use. Instructors can elect to use and adapt them or not use them as the instructor sees fit for his/her course.

9. What A Community Rubric Isn’t It does not have to be used verbatim. Instructors can use just parts of the rubric (certain competencies), adapt the language, etc.