Group Project Rubric Template
A ready-to-use, analytic group project rubric for Collaborative group project (Grades 6–12 and college). Score both the shared product and each student's contribution, so one person can't carry or sink the grade. Edit it for your own assignment, print it, or copy it into Google Docs.
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The group project rubric
| Criterion | Excellent (4) | Proficient (3) | Developing (2) | Beginning (1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contribution & participation | Completed a fair share of the work on time and supported teammates; the contribution is clearly visible in the final product. | Completed an assigned share with minor gaps in timing or follow-through. | Contributed less than a fair share, or work needed substantial redoing by others. | Contributed little or nothing; teammates covered the missing work. |
| Collaboration & teamwork | Listens to others, helps divide tasks fairly, and works through disagreements without derailing the group. | Cooperates and shares tasks; needs occasional prompting to include others or compromise. | Works mostly alone or dominates decisions; disagreements stall the group. | Does not cooperate; creates conflict or ignores the team. |
| Planning & time management | Set a plan with roles and deadlines and adjusted it as needed; milestones were met. | Had a plan and met most deadlines with minor last-minute scrambling. | Planning was loose; several deadlines slipped and work bunched up at the end. | No real plan; the work was rushed or incomplete at the deadline. |
| Quality of the final product | Fully meets the assignment's goals and reads as a unified whole, not stitched-together parts. | Meets the main goals; some sections are noticeably uneven in quality or style. | Meets some goals; the product feels disjointed or partly incomplete. | Does not meet the goals, or major parts are missing. |
| Presentation of the work | Communicates the result clearly and every member can speak to the whole project. | Communicates the result clearly; one or two members know only their own part. | Communication is unclear or uneven; handoffs between members are rough. | The result is not communicated clearly, or only one member can explain it. |
Four levels — Excellent (4) to Beginning (1). Print this page, or open it in the editor to change the wording, levels, or points.
Why these criteria
Each row targets something the assignment is really teaching, with descriptors written to be observable rather than vague:
- Contribution & participation
- Lets you grade the individual inside a group so each student's effort is visible.
- Collaboration & teamwork
- Rewards the behaviors that make groups function: listening, dividing labor, and resolving conflict.
- Planning & time management
- Makes the group's process gradable, not just the final artifact.
- Quality of the final product
- Judges the shared deliverable against the assignment's goals.
- Presentation of the work
- Covers how the group communicates the result, whether by slides, a demo, or a write-up.
How to adapt it
- Pair this with a private peer-evaluation form so 'Contribution & participation' reflects what teammates actually saw.
- For a project with no live presentation, drop 'Presentation of the work' and reweight the other rows.
- Score rows 1–2 per student and rows 3–5 once for the whole group.