Rubric Based Individual Itemized Assessment of Academic Projects

Majority of the students graduated from engineering colleges in India fail to justify their grades given to their project work. Academic Projects of 3 to 6 months duration are often offered to them to fulfill the course requirement. Developing a systematic assessment scheme helps the students to work on the expectations and teachers to grade within the set criteria. Existing system of project evaluation merely covers the basic things like abstract, technical and documentation reviews with a generalized grading policy. This paper is an attempt to help the teachers design a rubric considering specific modules to effectively assess the project work. Students can plan their work schedule and anticipate the expectations based on the rubric supplied to them. Job of the teachers is complex during the design of rubric but becomes quite simple when actual grading takes place.