Are there example rubrics available?
Yes. Some can be found in the following: MAA Notes #49, Assessment Practices in Undergraduate Mathematics (http://www.maa.org/saum/MAANotes49/index.html) Mathematics Assessment: A Practical Guide for Grades 9-12, Reston, VA: NCTM, 1999 The AP Program of the College Board creates rubrics for all free-response items on the annual AP examinations. The scoring rubrics for the AP Calculus free-response items (9-10 per year) are analytic rubrics and are released each year after the examinations are scored. Some of the AP courses use holistic rubrics.