ARELLANO UNIVERSITY

RUBRIC FOR ESSAY WRITING

Part 2: Evaluation of Student Skills and Competencies for Essay Writing

Name: _____________ Campus: ______________ School Year: ___________

Strand: ____________ Semester: _____________ Session: _______________
Section: ___________ Subject: _______________ Date: __________________

To the Evaluator,
This general group rubric is presented to you for the assessment of the learning
outcomes indicated. The assessment and grading criteria describe the level of achievement
required for the performance.

Directions: Rate the presentation using the required learning outcomes that are described by
the following constant scores. 2 for Beginning, 4 for Developing, 6 for Proficient, and 8 for
Advanced respectively. The total score to be earned will be the sum of scores of each learning
outcome criterion as described on students’ level of performance.
8 – Advanced = The presentation shows a very creative and productive workmanship as a
required output and is carefully planned, chosen, organized, presented, demonstrated and
applied to meet the assessment criteria described in the level of performance.
6 – Proficient = The presentation shows a creative and productive workmanship as a required
output and is planned, chosen, organized, presented, demonstrated and applied to meet the
assessment criteria described in the level of performance.
4 – Developing = The presentation shows a less creative and productive workmanship as a
required output and is generally planned, chosen, organized, presented, demonstrated and
applied to meet the assessment criteria described in the level of performance.
2 – Beginning = The presentation shows workmanship that needs more improvements to meet
the assessment criteria described and require.

LEARNING Beginning Developing Proficient Advanced

OUTCOMES 2 4 6 8
CRITERIA
The paper The paper The paper The paper
shows shows adequate shows shows thorough
Content inadequate opinions and adequate and and well-written
opinions only addresses some well-written opinions, always
marginally aspects of the opinions,; most supported with
related to the assigned topic opinions the facts related
topic supported with to topic
facts related to
the topic
The paper The paper The paper The paper
shows unclear shows shows good shows excellent
Idea statements and incomplete use of use of examples
Development underdeveloped development examples and and details to
ideas ideas details to explore ideas
illustrate and and opinions
develop ideas
and opinions
The paper The paper The paper The paper
shows shows shows an shows logically
Organization unstructured somewhat organized organized, and
entry concerning randomly entry well-written
 the introduction, organized entry containing the introduction,
body and with intro, body development development of
conclusion but no of introduction, main idea/s, and
conclusion body, and conclusion;
conclusion; maintains a very
maintains a clear focus
clear focus

The paper The paper The paper The paper

shows little shows shows shows a precise
Language Use sentence occasional use effective word vocabulary;
variety; few of sentence choices; good well-varied
effective word variety; some sentence sentence
choices effective words structure and structure choice
choices variety
The paper The paper The paper The paper
shows shows shows shows a fluid-
grammatical grammatical grammatical free punctuation
Conventions errors that errors that errors but do and grammar;
interfere with occasionally not interfere correct spelling
sentence interfere with with the and error free
thought; there sentence thought, with word usage
are misused and thought; with correct spelling
misspelled errors in spelling and word
words and word usage
throughout usages
Total

Evaluated by: _________________ Date: ______________________

Position: _____________________