Capstone Rubric
Completion rubric. Use only supplied, public, fictional, or safely prepared synthetic material.
Rating: Not yet, Meets, or Exceeds. Completion requires Meets on every essential criterion. Exceeds is descriptive and does not compensate for Not yet elsewhere.
| Essential criterion | Not yet | Meets | Exceeds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Task and user | Vague task or missing user/success | Bounded deliverable, intended user, success, and exclusions | Tests important edge cases without expanding scope |
| Input/data handling | Unclassified, unnecessary, or unauthorised data | Every input classified, permitted, and minimised; prohibited data excluded | Safer synthetic/reduced alternatives are documented |
| Tool choice | Tool chosen by popularity or without fit | AI/other-tool/human choice matches evidence, calculation, consequence, and authority | Alternatives and tradeoffs are tested clearly |
| Workflow and autonomy | Hidden stages or uncontrolled action | Inputs, stages, outputs, owners, handoffs, autonomy, and confirmations are explicit | Failure recovery and monitoring are integrated cleanly |
| Task specification | Missing outcome, sources, boundaries, format, or criteria | Complete usable specification with missing-information rule | Specification is concise and handles meaningful variation |
| Verification | Material claims accepted without independent evidence | Material claims map to suitable sources, tests, calculations, or qualified review | Disagreement and uncertainty are handled transparently |
| Safeguards | Material privacy, security, fairness, accessibility, or rights risk ignored | Relevant controls, owners, escalation, and stop conditions are present | Controls are tested against realistic failure cases |
| Human authority | Generic review or action before approval | Named authorised person receives evidence, criteria, time, and ability to reject or stop | Decision handoffs and records are especially clear |
| Test and revision | No meaningful test or revision | Safe test exposes at least one defect; targeted change is retested | Multiple contrasting cases show improved robustness |
| Reflection | Describes only success or confidence | Explains failure, evidence, changes, limits, and next improvement | Connects limits to a realistic maintenance plan |
Automatic revision conditions
The submission remains Not yet when any of these is present:
- Real sensitive data is used without approved authority.
- Material claims have no verification method.
- A consequential action lacks prior meaningful human approval.
- A known material risk has no owner, control, escalation, or stop condition.
- The test record hides failure or does not show a revision.
Record your essential-criterion review
Rate every criterion. The capstone reaches the browser-only completion standard only when every rating is Meets or Exceeds.