A rubric is a set of criteria and a scoring scale that are used to assess and evaluate student's work. In assessment, rubrics are used to evaluate student assignments for courses, a collection of student works, student presentations or papers, or program effectiveness. To assess holistically the meaningfulness of academic programs' assessment-based reviews, the North Carolina State University designed a rubric, to incorporate various disciplines' needs in regard to required accreditation vocabulary. The primary emphasis, however, was to make the language meaningful to all faculty.