AACU VALUE Rubrics

The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) Project provides generalized rubrics for three assessment domains: intellectual and practical skills, personal and social responsibility, and integrative and applied learning. Within the domains, there are a total of 15 measurable outcomes and a generalized rubric for measuring these outcomes. These generalized rubrics are adaptable to individual institutions, and provide a list of criteria and achievement descriptions for each outcome.

General Rubrics for the Assessment of Undergraduate Education (VALUE Project)

Domain	Measurable Outcome Rubric
Intellectual and Practical Skills	Inquiry and analysis (.pdf)
	Critical thinking (.pdf)
	Creative thinking (.pdf)
	Written communication (.pdf)
	Oral communication (.pdf)
	Reading (.pdf)
	Quantitative literacy (.pdf)
	Information literacy (.pdf)
	Teamwork (.pdf)
	Problem Solving (.pdf)

Personal and Social Responsibility	Civic knowledge and engagement - local and global (.pdf)
	Intercultural knowledge and competence (.pdf)
	Ethical reasoning (.pdf)
	Foundations and skills for lifelong learning (.pdf)

Integrative and Applied Learning	Integrative and applied learning (.pdf)

Excerpted with permission from Assessing Outcomes and Improving Achievement: Tips and Tools for Using Rubrics, edited by Terrel L. Rhodes. Copyright 2010 by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.