Assessment Design

This Element of the Assessment and Feedback Toolkit concerns the construction and design of assessments. Here you will find tools to help you design new assessments, amend existing ones, get ideas and templates for assessments, and sample/template marking criteria/rubrics.

New Assessment Ideas/Templates

Use these tools to help you to design new, or amend existing, assessments, as well as explore the effectiveness and ways to improve existing assessments across your programme.

Sample Marking Criteria 

These sample and generic marking criteria will help you to write your own marking criteria and grade descriptors for your assessments.

Sample Rubric(s)

Here you will find templates for rubrics for different types of assessments.

Other Tools/Templates

Other useful tools and/or template ideas designed to help you create a new/amend an existing assessment.


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Assessment and Feedback Toolkit by Editor: Dr Sam Saunders is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.