Name___________________________________________Period__________________________Date______________________________

Rubric for Infographic or Poster

Career Title: _____________________________________________________________
Task Description: Design an infographic or poster of the chosen career.
Include the following information:
 Duties
 Education
 Jobs
 Pay Infographic:
http://piktochart.com/
 Other occupations
 Work schedules

Criteria Exceptional Admirable Marginal Unacceptable

weight

 Appropriate details
support main idea
 Accurate and detailed
information
Content 50%
 Information adequately
supports purpose of
visual
 Most details support
main idea
 Accurate information for
almost all subject matter
 Information is mostly
adequate and supportive
of visual’s purpose
 Few details support
main idea
 Lacking accurate
information
 Inadequate information
is not clearly supportive
of visual’s purpose
 No details to support
main idea
 Information is not
accurate
 Information does not
support the visual’s
purpose

 Topic and title clear and
easily identified
 Main idea is clearly
appropriate to topic
Focus 20%
 All illustrations
complement purpose of
visual
 Topic and title are mostly
clear and easily identified
 Main idea is appropriate
to topic
 Most illustrations
complement purpose of
visual
 Topic and title difficult to
identify
 Main idea not clearly
stated
 Few illustrations
complement purpose of
visual
 Topic and title are not
clearly identified
 No main idea
 Illustrations do not
complement purpose of
visual

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 Outstanding use of  Adequate use of color,  Inappropriate use of  Little attempt to use
color, design, and space design, and space color, design, and space color, design and space
 Original and creative  Design is adequate  Design lacks creativity appropriately
Visual
20% design  Overall design is mostly  Lack of harmonious  Design is dull
Appeal  Overall design is pleasing and harmonious design in presentation  Project has sloppy
pleasing and appearance
harmonious
 Free of grammatical  Mostly free of  Frequent grammatical  Too frequent
errors grammatical errors errors grammatical errors
Mechanics 10%  Words are legible and  Most words are legible  Presentation is illegible  Distractive elements
pertinent to topic and pertinent to topic and confusing make illustration
ineffective

Assignment Score ______________ + Beyonder/Bonus ______________ = Final Score ________________

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