Measurement of Student Achievement and Rubrics

Rubrics are used to write learning outcomes and objectives. Content goes down the left hand side, while objectives go across the top – each cell intersecting the two. This rubric shows cognitive domain objectives, namely:

• knowledge (remembering)
• comprehension (do I understand it?)
• application (in other contexts)
• analysis (breaking info down into smaller parts)
• synthesis (create, create one intelligible whole from parts of information) 
• evaluation (what value does the info have)

Here's a primary school example of one.

There are also four dimensions to consider, 

A. Factual   B. Conceptual   C. Procedural   D. Metacognitive

Apart from the cognitive domain there is also the affective domain  (feelings, attitudes, values) and the psychomotor domain (skilled sets of motor actions - movements).

To explain the parts of the cognitive domain better, see below.