There are different types of rubrics and each serves a specific purpose. Four types of rubrics are identified here:

Analytic Rubric

This rubric is used to provide feedback or to score individual parts of students' completed assignments. Students' assignments can be a process or a product. Within an analytic rubric, there are multiple descriptors for each evaluated criterion. A separate score is provided for each criterion; the scores can be added together to give a total score.

Holistic Rubric

This rubric is used to provide feedback or to score students overall assignment without critiquing individual parts of it. Again, students' assignments can be a process or a product. Usually a single score is given for the completed assignment. The score indicates an overall evaluation of the quality of the assignment.

General Rubric

This rubric provides generic criteria and descriptions of performance. Typically, the criteria and descriptors of the rubric can be used for different tasks belonging to the whole domain of learning for specific learning outcomes.

Task-Specific

This rubric provides specific criteria and descriptors to reflect a particular performance. The criteria and descriptors of the rubric are used for an individual task.

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