Assuring graduate capabilities – this site explores a whole of course (degree) level approach to assuring standards of graduate capability achievement focusing on employability. There are also a heap of examples of rubrics for course learning outcomes and standards for graduate capabilities in Business and Law, Health Sciences, Science and Engineering, and Arts and Education.
Jon Mueller’s Authentic Assessment Toolbox – a how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning.
Rubistar is a free online tool for creating Rubrics. There are many categories to choose from including Science and Literature. The matrix has drop-down boxes for you to choose your criterion which then determines the descriptors that populate the standards.